It delights me that more and more Kenyans are thinking more deeply about the plight of the vast majority of our contrymen who go through great difficulties to put food on the table regularly. This and the so-called cartels who control prices in Kenya have to be at the top of the elecetion campaign agenda.
I carry some comments by Gachinga Warima that made a lot of sense to me...
Guest Post By Gachinga Warima
You know, I learned something a few years ago in an economics class that if implemented, would completely solve all our problems in Kenya. This philosophy completely changed my thinking.
African governments have all missed it....and that's why even if you were rich in Kenya, the quality of your life would not compare to an equally rich citizen of the U.S. or U.K...
The secret to a great nation with a great quality of life for its citizens is, "COMMITMENT TO UPLIFT ITS MIDDLECLASS". Kenyan politicians are mostly interested in filling their pocket...and not in improving the lifestyles of the middleclass or poor in Kibera, Mathare etc. That's why our President earns 2,000,000 bob a month, and the M.P.'s 875,000 bob a month...while Kenyans in Kibera die of hunger.
Our Politicians are stupid. They think that if they have a billion shillings, they will live happily ever after. How Delusional!! How daft are these people?!? You will NEVER be happy if your neighbors are suffering. Why? Coz if suppose you have saved all your money and bought yourself a nice mansion in Lavington or Kile...if a poor person in neighboring Kawangware needs food for his children, guess whose house they'll break into? Guess whose car they'll carjack? This is one reason why we have such levels of crime in Kenya. People don't grow up wanting to be pick-pockets. People don't grow up dreaming to be car-jackers. Mostly, they're pushed to the corner, left with no options to survive. No options to provide for their children. Our middleclass and poor are so desperate! Desperate for food, desperate for health-aid, desperate for shelter, desperate for a government that cares.
40 years after Independence, and the common mwananchi is worse off today than back in 1963. Like you said, demolishing the slums and building low-cost housing for the poor is one solution. A start to the right direction...but more must be done.
Jobs must be created for the middleclass and the poor. Job creation is the thing to do. Common household products, food...etc, must be comfortably affordable to the lowest paid citizens. A new city of international status must be created in Kenya. We can't have everyone moving to Nairobi. Eldoret, Nakuru, Kisumu, Nyeri...the options are limitless...but we have to re-create Nairobi elsewhere. The new city must be complete with international companies, government services, a transportation system, academic institutions, factories etc. Incentives must be given to redirect the population to this new mega-city.
Great things can be done in Kenya to improve our quality of life. The opportunities are just endless to eradicate poverty. Kenya can be a great country to live in.
God bless the Motherland Kenya 4 ever!!
~ Gachinga Warima
Kennesaw, Georgia.
Nasty men habit that women hate with a passion
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Red Alert: Kumekucha Under Attack!!
archive
This is an important notice to all our readers.
When former ethics PS John Githongo posted the famous David Mwiraria Anglo Leasing tapes online, his blog was attacked by some nut who posted masses of government documents in the comments area. The idea was to stop any genuine comments by Kenyans getting through and they succeeded.
Kumekucha is under a similar attack which started the minute I posted a story about some grabbed land right in the middle of the Masai Mara. Some of you may have seen a lengthy pornographic post intended to divert attention away from this issue of national importance which for legal reasons I cannot say very much about. For some strange reason I am having difficulties technical difficulties deleteing it (but I am working on it). I have also been informed by my sources that there is already great fear within the administration insiders over this scandal (which involves various big names in the Kibaki administration) being revealed.
I have therefore moved quickly and taken a number of precautions. If the attack persists, I will have no option but to moderate comments before they appear. I know that we have all enjoyed the chats here a lot, and I sincerely hope that it will not come to this. Obviously they are very determined that the truth does not come out.
I am closely monitoring the situation.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
This is an important notice to all our readers.
When former ethics PS John Githongo posted the famous David Mwiraria Anglo Leasing tapes online, his blog was attacked by some nut who posted masses of government documents in the comments area. The idea was to stop any genuine comments by Kenyans getting through and they succeeded.
Kumekucha is under a similar attack which started the minute I posted a story about some grabbed land right in the middle of the Masai Mara. Some of you may have seen a lengthy pornographic post intended to divert attention away from this issue of national importance which for legal reasons I cannot say very much about. For some strange reason I am having difficulties technical difficulties deleteing it (but I am working on it). I have also been informed by my sources that there is already great fear within the administration insiders over this scandal (which involves various big names in the Kibaki administration) being revealed.
I have therefore moved quickly and taken a number of precautions. If the attack persists, I will have no option but to moderate comments before they appear. I know that we have all enjoyed the chats here a lot, and I sincerely hope that it will not come to this. Obviously they are very determined that the truth does not come out.
I am closely monitoring the situation.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Major Earthquake in Nairobi Imminent?
archive
Over the last 36 hours or so, residents of Nairobi and it’s environs have reported experiencing earth tremors and violent shocks. Indeed it has been reported by geological experts that most of the seismic activity is originating from around the lake Natron area. Lake Natron is in neighboring Tanzania and within the Rift Valley that also sweeps across Kenya and is fairly close to Nairobi.
Now those who have heard the prophecy of a bearded professor of molecular biology turned prophet, Dr David Awuor must be getting the jitters. Well over 6 months ago, this guy predicted that a major earthquake would hit Nairobi destroying buildings.
What is even more chilling is the fact that experts are saying that sometimes small earth tremors like the ones that have been felt in Nairobi and its’ environs usually precede a major quake.
Dr Awour first came to national limelight when journalists and everybody ignored him when he predicted the tsunami that rocked a large part of the planet and started somewhere in South East Asia. After it happened, Kenyans started taking him a lot more seriously.
However not everybody agrees with him, there are many religious leaders who label him a prophet of doom and warn their flock to ignore his predictions.
Kumekucha appeals to our readers in Nairobi to take precautions and I have published in the next post some basic earthquake precautions. It is better to be safe than sorry.
More information on Dr Awuor and his prophecies...
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Over the last 36 hours or so, residents of Nairobi and it’s environs have reported experiencing earth tremors and violent shocks. Indeed it has been reported by geological experts that most of the seismic activity is originating from around the lake Natron area. Lake Natron is in neighboring Tanzania and within the Rift Valley that also sweeps across Kenya and is fairly close to Nairobi.
Now those who have heard the prophecy of a bearded professor of molecular biology turned prophet, Dr David Awuor must be getting the jitters. Well over 6 months ago, this guy predicted that a major earthquake would hit Nairobi destroying buildings.
What is even more chilling is the fact that experts are saying that sometimes small earth tremors like the ones that have been felt in Nairobi and its’ environs usually precede a major quake.
Dr Awour first came to national limelight when journalists and everybody ignored him when he predicted the tsunami that rocked a large part of the planet and started somewhere in South East Asia. After it happened, Kenyans started taking him a lot more seriously.
However not everybody agrees with him, there are many religious leaders who label him a prophet of doom and warn their flock to ignore his predictions.
Kumekucha appeals to our readers in Nairobi to take precautions and I have published in the next post some basic earthquake precautions. It is better to be safe than sorry.
More information on Dr Awuor and his prophecies...
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Safety Precautions Incase Of An Earthquake
archive
During an earthquake it is very important to remain calm:
- Inside a building, stand in a doorway, or crouch under a desk or table, well away from windows or glass dividers.
- If you are outside, stand away from buildings, trees, telephones and electrical lines.
- While on the road, drive away from underpasses and overpasses; stop in safe area; stay in vehicle.
After an earthquake...
- Check for injuries-provide first aid.
- Check for safety-check for water, sewage breaks
- check for downed power lines and shorts; turn off appropriate utilities.
- Check for building damage and potential problems during aftershocks
- Lines will usually be jammed so use telephone for emergencies, only. That way you will save lives.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
During an earthquake it is very important to remain calm:
- Inside a building, stand in a doorway, or crouch under a desk or table, well away from windows or glass dividers.
- If you are outside, stand away from buildings, trees, telephones and electrical lines.
- While on the road, drive away from underpasses and overpasses; stop in safe area; stay in vehicle.
After an earthquake...
- Check for injuries-provide first aid.
- Check for safety-check for water, sewage breaks
- check for downed power lines and shorts; turn off appropriate utilities.
- Check for building damage and potential problems during aftershocks
- Lines will usually be jammed so use telephone for emergencies, only. That way you will save lives.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Monday, July 16, 2007
President Kibaki's Secret Election—Winning Strategy
archive
Today's posts are all dedicated to the closest friend I ever had, the late Ger Nyanjom, whose life was brutally cut short before he could achieve his dreams. The man who shot him at point blank range in a Nairobi office and stole nothing in 2005 has never been arrested to this day. Circumstances point to the fact that my friend "G" as he was fondly known to those who were close to him, lost his life because he was a Luo (sorry, I can't give details).
Thank you "G" for being there for me when I was down and out. I will not rest until all the Luo propaganda, that has caused so much anguish to this community and which was partly to blame for your death, is reversed and all Kenyans reach a place where they understand and appreciate the Luo community as precious Kenyans whose contribution to our beloved motherland has always been downplayed and undermined. I dream that one day soon, a popular Luo president will be elected in Kenya and the electorate will not even notice that he is a Luo…
I hope all you good folks know who Mutahi Ngunyi is. It is very important that you know because he is at the center of an election campaign winning strategy that has been carefully implemented even before the chaotic referendum of 2005 that is designed to see the ailing, sickly President Kibaki back in power for another 5 year term.
Mutahi Ngunyi is that guy in specs who used to make cutting edge analysis in the run up to the 2002 general elections, mostly on KTN TV. He has admitted himself that during those elections he also did some consultancy work for the Kibaki team (which he says in one column that was published in the Daily Nation, candidate Kibaki at that time did not appreciate and arrogantly wondered whether he (Ngunyi) knew what he was talking about.)
In the early years of the Kibaki administration Mutahi Ngunyi's column in the Sunday Nation had become a must-read, especially because of his biting, but well-researched criticism of the Kibaki administration. But suddenly one day, without any proper explanation, the column disappeared. It was later learnt that Mr Ngunyi's highly critical columns had served their intended purpose and the political scientist had joined the president's team of political advisors.
It seems that this information is yet to reach the Standard media group because they still carry the man's views as independent views on both KTN and the Standard newspaper.
I would like to draw your attention to a newspaper article heavily quoting Ngunyi that was published in the Sunday Standard, yesterday. In the article Ngunyi emphasizes that the coming elections will be a two-horse race affair between President Kibaki and Raila Odinga. He ignores the current activity within Kanu and Moi's clear hand in a move that will yield no doubt yield a third major presidential candidate and a political force carefully positioned to cash in on the massive expected fall out in both ODM and Narc-Kenya when the parliamentary candidates nomination exercises are completed. All this is information Ngunyi is definitely aware of.
Read The Standard article for yourself;
So why would Ngunyi be doing this? The answer is rather obvious. Such a scenario would play right into the hands of the President's advisors and would ensure a Kibaki victory.
The terrible truth, which hurts me deeply even as I write it (see my other post to discover why) is that a Raila candidacy as the ODM candidate would greatly favor President Kibaki. It does not matter how united ODM would be. And that is the reason why this otherwise excellent political analyst made his strange statement to the newspapers.
Insiders have revealed to this blogger (and I have published almost all the information I have obtained here. Almost all. Some of it is too hot even for this blog—maybe later) that there is one possible ODM candidate who causes the president's advisors to urinate in their trousers. That man's name is Musalia Mudavadi. A united ODM that remains intact with Mudavadi as the candidate would deliver a landslide victory to ODM. Sadly if such a thing were to occur, Kenyans would be placing a Goldenberg suspect (yet to be cleared, like Saitoti) as President of Kenya. The man is also not only a close confidante of retired President Moi, but the two are related.
So why would a Raila candidature favor President Kibaki? Regular readers of this blog will know the answer to that question. Years of Jomo Kenyatta propaganda after the assassination of Tom Mboya is deeply ingrained in the psyche of even younger Kenyans that it has been passed onto. Make no mistake about it, propaganda is very powerful indeed.
While many of the so-called Gema communities voted against the government and for the Orange during the referendum, majority of them will not vote for a Raila presidency. What will happen is that ODM will bag the majority of seats in parliament and lose the presidency.
Let me be a little more blunt (and you will forgive me because I am here to tell the truth as I see it. When I favor a candidate I will say so openly and I have said several times here that out of the current candidates, Raila Odinga is the most suitable. He is the one I would favor over Mwai Kibaki any day. But suitability and political reality are often two very different things. Even the political dreams that Kumekucha has are easier to achieve than a Raila Presidency. The horrible truth is that while many Kenyans seated in the comfort of their city offices will say that they can vote for Raila, when they go back to their villages to do the actual voting, the tribal demons that will arise in them will not allow them to vote for a Luo.
If you don’t believe me, just talk quietly to the following villagers; Kikuyu, Kamba, Kisii, Kuria, Masai, Meru, Giriama, Digo (I think you all know that the majority of votes are scattered out there in remote villages many of which you have not been to—luckily Kumekucha has traveled widely in Kenya) and ask them if they would vote for a Raila presidency? When they say "No" don't bother to ask them why because very few people will tell you the truth. And even fewer know the truth behind how this "feeling" was deliberately planted in the hearts and minds of so many Kenyan communities during the Kenyatta presidency and what the objective of doing this was.
Now you understand why it would be in Narc Kenya's best interests to create chaos within ODM and ensure that the ODM candidate is not anybody else but Raila Odinga, because he will be very easy to deal with come the day of reckoning when Kenyans have to vote in their next president.
Other articles in this blog from the past on Mutahi Ngunyi…
As Nation columnist, his predictions mostly came true
How the man looks like plus article announcing that he is in fact one of the main advisors
John Githongo Versus Mutahi Ngunyi: The Court battle
Today's posts are all dedicated to the closest friend I ever had, the late Ger Nyanjom, whose life was brutally cut short before he could achieve his dreams. The man who shot him at point blank range in a Nairobi office and stole nothing in 2005 has never been arrested to this day. Circumstances point to the fact that my friend "G" as he was fondly known to those who were close to him, lost his life because he was a Luo (sorry, I can't give details).
Thank you "G" for being there for me when I was down and out. I will not rest until all the Luo propaganda, that has caused so much anguish to this community and which was partly to blame for your death, is reversed and all Kenyans reach a place where they understand and appreciate the Luo community as precious Kenyans whose contribution to our beloved motherland has always been downplayed and undermined. I dream that one day soon, a popular Luo president will be elected in Kenya and the electorate will not even notice that he is a Luo…
I hope all you good folks know who Mutahi Ngunyi is. It is very important that you know because he is at the center of an election campaign winning strategy that has been carefully implemented even before the chaotic referendum of 2005 that is designed to see the ailing, sickly President Kibaki back in power for another 5 year term.
Mutahi Ngunyi is that guy in specs who used to make cutting edge analysis in the run up to the 2002 general elections, mostly on KTN TV. He has admitted himself that during those elections he also did some consultancy work for the Kibaki team (which he says in one column that was published in the Daily Nation, candidate Kibaki at that time did not appreciate and arrogantly wondered whether he (Ngunyi) knew what he was talking about.)
In the early years of the Kibaki administration Mutahi Ngunyi's column in the Sunday Nation had become a must-read, especially because of his biting, but well-researched criticism of the Kibaki administration. But suddenly one day, without any proper explanation, the column disappeared. It was later learnt that Mr Ngunyi's highly critical columns had served their intended purpose and the political scientist had joined the president's team of political advisors.
It seems that this information is yet to reach the Standard media group because they still carry the man's views as independent views on both KTN and the Standard newspaper.
I would like to draw your attention to a newspaper article heavily quoting Ngunyi that was published in the Sunday Standard, yesterday. In the article Ngunyi emphasizes that the coming elections will be a two-horse race affair between President Kibaki and Raila Odinga. He ignores the current activity within Kanu and Moi's clear hand in a move that will yield no doubt yield a third major presidential candidate and a political force carefully positioned to cash in on the massive expected fall out in both ODM and Narc-Kenya when the parliamentary candidates nomination exercises are completed. All this is information Ngunyi is definitely aware of.
Read The Standard article for yourself;
So why would Ngunyi be doing this? The answer is rather obvious. Such a scenario would play right into the hands of the President's advisors and would ensure a Kibaki victory.
The terrible truth, which hurts me deeply even as I write it (see my other post to discover why) is that a Raila candidacy as the ODM candidate would greatly favor President Kibaki. It does not matter how united ODM would be. And that is the reason why this otherwise excellent political analyst made his strange statement to the newspapers.
Insiders have revealed to this blogger (and I have published almost all the information I have obtained here. Almost all. Some of it is too hot even for this blog—maybe later) that there is one possible ODM candidate who causes the president's advisors to urinate in their trousers. That man's name is Musalia Mudavadi. A united ODM that remains intact with Mudavadi as the candidate would deliver a landslide victory to ODM. Sadly if such a thing were to occur, Kenyans would be placing a Goldenberg suspect (yet to be cleared, like Saitoti) as President of Kenya. The man is also not only a close confidante of retired President Moi, but the two are related.
So why would a Raila candidature favor President Kibaki? Regular readers of this blog will know the answer to that question. Years of Jomo Kenyatta propaganda after the assassination of Tom Mboya is deeply ingrained in the psyche of even younger Kenyans that it has been passed onto. Make no mistake about it, propaganda is very powerful indeed.
While many of the so-called Gema communities voted against the government and for the Orange during the referendum, majority of them will not vote for a Raila presidency. What will happen is that ODM will bag the majority of seats in parliament and lose the presidency.
Let me be a little more blunt (and you will forgive me because I am here to tell the truth as I see it. When I favor a candidate I will say so openly and I have said several times here that out of the current candidates, Raila Odinga is the most suitable. He is the one I would favor over Mwai Kibaki any day. But suitability and political reality are often two very different things. Even the political dreams that Kumekucha has are easier to achieve than a Raila Presidency. The horrible truth is that while many Kenyans seated in the comfort of their city offices will say that they can vote for Raila, when they go back to their villages to do the actual voting, the tribal demons that will arise in them will not allow them to vote for a Luo.
If you don’t believe me, just talk quietly to the following villagers; Kikuyu, Kamba, Kisii, Kuria, Masai, Meru, Giriama, Digo (I think you all know that the majority of votes are scattered out there in remote villages many of which you have not been to—luckily Kumekucha has traveled widely in Kenya) and ask them if they would vote for a Raila presidency? When they say "No" don't bother to ask them why because very few people will tell you the truth. And even fewer know the truth behind how this "feeling" was deliberately planted in the hearts and minds of so many Kenyan communities during the Kenyatta presidency and what the objective of doing this was.
Now you understand why it would be in Narc Kenya's best interests to create chaos within ODM and ensure that the ODM candidate is not anybody else but Raila Odinga, because he will be very easy to deal with come the day of reckoning when Kenyans have to vote in their next president.
Other articles in this blog from the past on Mutahi Ngunyi…
As Nation columnist, his predictions mostly came true
How the man looks like plus article announcing that he is in fact one of the main advisors
John Githongo Versus Mutahi Ngunyi: The Court battle
Why This Luo Thing Hurts Me So…
archive
I was born in Kisumu and yet strangely enough my parents were not residents of this beautiful Luo Nyanza lakeside city. They were in fact traveling and Kumekucha just couldn't wait to get into this world—if only I knew the nature of this planet then, I would not have been in such a hurry.
I met the Kikuyu beauty who is now the mother of my children and the woman I still love so much, in Kisumu. I was on transit to Kakamega, she was visiting the city.
There is no denying that Kisumu is a place of destiny for me.
To this day I make friends more easily with Kenyans who happen to hail from this part of the country and it is never deliberate, it just happens.
This is probably the reason why over the years I have come to understand the historical scenario surrounding this wonderful community.
Many people say that Luos are violent and impatient. Yet the truth is that few tribes in Kenya are as patient and forgiving as these wonderful guys. Very few other communities would have voted so enthusiastically for President Kibaki in 2002 after the massacre that happened in Kisumu in 1969 where the presidential guard opened fire on the crowd, indiscriminately killing many innocent women and children who were by no means a direct threat to the safety of the President. The number of people killed to this day is still a state secret.
What hurts me most is that after all this suffering some very well educated Kenyans can proudly proclaim that a Luo cannot lead Kenya without realizing what they are saying.
P.S. For those who do not know, I am tribless. My father hails from Ukambani, my mother Bukusu, I am married to a Kikuyu was born in Kisumu, grew up in Nairobi, Garissa, Isiolo, Mombasa, Kakamega, Machakos. Language of communication in my house and when visiting the folks; English and Kiswahili.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
I was born in Kisumu and yet strangely enough my parents were not residents of this beautiful Luo Nyanza lakeside city. They were in fact traveling and Kumekucha just couldn't wait to get into this world—if only I knew the nature of this planet then, I would not have been in such a hurry.
I met the Kikuyu beauty who is now the mother of my children and the woman I still love so much, in Kisumu. I was on transit to Kakamega, she was visiting the city.
There is no denying that Kisumu is a place of destiny for me.
To this day I make friends more easily with Kenyans who happen to hail from this part of the country and it is never deliberate, it just happens.
This is probably the reason why over the years I have come to understand the historical scenario surrounding this wonderful community.
Many people say that Luos are violent and impatient. Yet the truth is that few tribes in Kenya are as patient and forgiving as these wonderful guys. Very few other communities would have voted so enthusiastically for President Kibaki in 2002 after the massacre that happened in Kisumu in 1969 where the presidential guard opened fire on the crowd, indiscriminately killing many innocent women and children who were by no means a direct threat to the safety of the President. The number of people killed to this day is still a state secret.
What hurts me most is that after all this suffering some very well educated Kenyans can proudly proclaim that a Luo cannot lead Kenya without realizing what they are saying.
P.S. For those who do not know, I am tribless. My father hails from Ukambani, my mother Bukusu, I am married to a Kikuyu was born in Kisumu, grew up in Nairobi, Garissa, Isiolo, Mombasa, Kakamega, Machakos. Language of communication in my house and when visiting the folks; English and Kiswahili.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
How Jaramogi Odinga Denied Kenya A Leadership Free Of Tribalism
archive
Today's posts are all dedicated to the closest friend I ever had, the late Ger Nyanjom, whose life was brutally cut short before he could achieve his dreams. The man who shot him at point blank range in a Nairobi office and stole nothing in 2005 has never been arrested to this day. Circumstances point to the fact that my friend "G" as he was fondly known to those who were close to him, lost his life because he was a Luo (sorry, I can't give details).
Thank you "G" for being there for me when I was down and out. I will not rest until all the Luo propaganda, that has caused so much anguish to this community and which was partly to blame for your death, is reversed and all Kenyans reach a place where they understand and appreciate the Luo community as precious Kenyans whose contribution to our beloved motherland has always been downplayed and undermined. I dream that one day soon, a popular Luo president will be elected in Kenya and the electorate will not even notice that he is a Luo…
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga in a moment of jealous rage denied Kenya the perfect non-tribal beginning she deserved and at the same time took away the presidency from his own Luo community and handed it over to another Kenyan community.
The spiritual implications of this action make it difficult for the community to win back the presidency that was there's in the first place but was given away and more so the man's son Raila, (who is as different from his father as light is to day). Something you give away to frustrate your own is not easy to get back.
This is what happened…
After some brilliant maneuverings by Tom Mboya that saw the number of Africa representatives in the Legco (Legislative Council—the parliament of the time) increased gradually, the young politician started his strange call; "Uhuru Sasa." Meaning independence now.
Most people though he was crazy, just like folks today think that Kumekucha is crazy with his idea of a new generation of younger leaders grabbing power in this year's general elections.
After a while it was clear that Independence was on the way and Tom Mboya was on course to be Kenya's first president. The older Odinga clearly saw this and was not happy. He knew that a vast majority of the voters in Mboya's Nairobi constituency belonged to the Kikuyu community and so one day Jaramogi Oginga Odinga stood up in parliament and made a very strange statement. He said that Kenyatta (jailed at Kapenguria and mostly forgotten) was "like a god to Kenyans" and before any discussions would be held about Kenya's independence, Kenyatta would have to be released. Mboya was in a fix. If he failed to support the release of Odinga, he would easily have eroded his entire political base overnight. So he was forced to be at the forefront of a new "release-Kenyatta now campaign" that brought the elderly anthropologist back to the political limelight.
The Jaramogi statement set in motion a chain of events that saw Kenyatta (who had been out of touch with the world which had changed so much since he was jailed in 1952) released in 1960 and he ended up as the first president of Kenya. Jaramogi not only denied his own tribes-mate the presidency (although there are those who say the Suba Luos of Rusinga Island—where Mboya hailed from are not proper Luos and are in fact Bantus rather than Nilotes) but he denied the country what many historians agree would have a brilliant presidency. The character and nature of Mboya would have created a totally different and non-tribal foundation for the young Kenyan nation, alas it was not to be.
But even sadder, the Luo community continues to suffer from a decision made by one of their own in a moment of jealous rage and envy.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Today's posts are all dedicated to the closest friend I ever had, the late Ger Nyanjom, whose life was brutally cut short before he could achieve his dreams. The man who shot him at point blank range in a Nairobi office and stole nothing in 2005 has never been arrested to this day. Circumstances point to the fact that my friend "G" as he was fondly known to those who were close to him, lost his life because he was a Luo (sorry, I can't give details).
Thank you "G" for being there for me when I was down and out. I will not rest until all the Luo propaganda, that has caused so much anguish to this community and which was partly to blame for your death, is reversed and all Kenyans reach a place where they understand and appreciate the Luo community as precious Kenyans whose contribution to our beloved motherland has always been downplayed and undermined. I dream that one day soon, a popular Luo president will be elected in Kenya and the electorate will not even notice that he is a Luo…
Jaramogi Oginga Odinga in a moment of jealous rage denied Kenya the perfect non-tribal beginning she deserved and at the same time took away the presidency from his own Luo community and handed it over to another Kenyan community.
The spiritual implications of this action make it difficult for the community to win back the presidency that was there's in the first place but was given away and more so the man's son Raila, (who is as different from his father as light is to day). Something you give away to frustrate your own is not easy to get back.
This is what happened…
After some brilliant maneuverings by Tom Mboya that saw the number of Africa representatives in the Legco (Legislative Council—the parliament of the time) increased gradually, the young politician started his strange call; "Uhuru Sasa." Meaning independence now.
Most people though he was crazy, just like folks today think that Kumekucha is crazy with his idea of a new generation of younger leaders grabbing power in this year's general elections.
After a while it was clear that Independence was on the way and Tom Mboya was on course to be Kenya's first president. The older Odinga clearly saw this and was not happy. He knew that a vast majority of the voters in Mboya's Nairobi constituency belonged to the Kikuyu community and so one day Jaramogi Oginga Odinga stood up in parliament and made a very strange statement. He said that Kenyatta (jailed at Kapenguria and mostly forgotten) was "like a god to Kenyans" and before any discussions would be held about Kenya's independence, Kenyatta would have to be released. Mboya was in a fix. If he failed to support the release of Odinga, he would easily have eroded his entire political base overnight. So he was forced to be at the forefront of a new "release-Kenyatta now campaign" that brought the elderly anthropologist back to the political limelight.
The Jaramogi statement set in motion a chain of events that saw Kenyatta (who had been out of touch with the world which had changed so much since he was jailed in 1952) released in 1960 and he ended up as the first president of Kenya. Jaramogi not only denied his own tribes-mate the presidency (although there are those who say the Suba Luos of Rusinga Island—where Mboya hailed from are not proper Luos and are in fact Bantus rather than Nilotes) but he denied the country what many historians agree would have a brilliant presidency. The character and nature of Mboya would have created a totally different and non-tribal foundation for the young Kenyan nation, alas it was not to be.
But even sadder, the Luo community continues to suffer from a decision made by one of their own in a moment of jealous rage and envy.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Kibaki Clings To Solicited UN Award
Guest column
archive
By Phil
I watched in amusement early this month when an excited President Kibaki refused to hand over the UNPSA award to his Aide de Camp prior to addressing members of his cabinet at State House. It was a sight to behold because this was a special ceremony that required the attendance of all ministers, their assistant ministers, permanent secretaries and other senior government officials.
The United Nations Public Service Awards (UNPSA) is one of the most prestigious international recognition of excellence in public service. It rewards the creative achievements and contributions of public service institutions to a more effective and responsive public administration in countries worldwide. Through an annual competition, the UN Public Service Awards promotes the role, professionalism and visibility of public service.
The award was as a result of GoKs introduction of performance contracts to all members of the public service. The awarded itself is solicited by way of submitting nominations online to the UNPSA.
In the excitement of receiving its first (and so far only) international award, the GoK could be excused for turning this into an official public ceremony. While chauffeur-driven members of cabinet and permanent secretaries were busy uncorking expensive champagne bottles at the State House ball room on tax-payers account, low cadre civil / public servants who earned this award continue to survive on sacco loans, pyramid schemes (sic), merciless shylocks and merry-go-round initiatives.
Never mind that this was a solicited award....
Never mind that the actual recipients of this award are those clerks you see at Nyayo/Harambee House and other government / public service institutions nationwide.
Against the backdrop of receiving this award, the Kibaki regime conveniently forgot that the Kenya Cabinet itself remains a blatant display of tribalism and cronyism. It is a classic example of how political survival overrides critical considerations like, for instance, to ensuring that appointments to the cabinet give due respect cultural and ethnic diversity of the country Kenya. The President has unfortunately taken full advantage of constitutional failings to appoint ministers based on his own personal whims.
Even as Assistant Ministers raise serious questions about their individual roles in cabinet, the cabinet itself remains the largest since independence with a record 34 full ministers and 50 assistant ministers thus creating a large bloated Cabinet of 84 members. This number could be more only that some slots are not filled as they serve a perfect carrot and stick in parliamentary business!.
Never mind that Kibaki's own pre-election pledge was to create a cabinet of not more than 20 persons!!
Never mind that a significant members of this cabinet were elected on a KANU ticket, supposedly the official opposition party in parliament!
Never mind that an even larger number of members of this cabinet were elected on a FORD-P ticket, which was effectively a competitor of NARC in 2002 general elections!
Never mind that the terminology 'Government of National Unity' is completely alien to our constitution!
More importantly however is that the country is yet to come to terms with the cost implications of appointing (idle) assistant ministers, their permanent secretaries, personal assistants, office support staff, security staff at all their residences, pool of motor vehicles, renting of office space, etc, etc. I wonder if those fellows at UNPSA ever bothered to check out these excesses. On top of their Sh887,500 pay as MPs, assistant ministers earn Sh100,000 responsibility allowance while Cabinet ministers pocket Sh200,000 each. They also enjoy other perks making the Government spent more than Sh600 million on their allowances each financial year - I was told enough to build 300 fully-equipped classrooms at a cost of Sh200,000 each. You do the math and tell us the sum of what idle assistant ministers ALONE are costing the Kenya economy annually. We shall add the cost implications of PS's PA's, support staff, motor vehicle pool of at least 6 cars and personal & residential security when we get over the massive shock of how much it will cost in total when Kibaki completes his 5 year term. It is surely horrific!
Never mind that nearly 4 million Kenyan citizens in Eastern, North Eastern and parts of Rift Valley provinces are 100% dependent on WFP food aid.
Never mind that fishermen along banks of Lake Victoria are being fleeced by middlemen for ignorance and lack of cold-storage facilities.
Never mind that thousands of Kenya citizens (young and old) do not have a place their call home and many of them are referred to as 'chokoras'. They are homeless, highly vulnarable and they spend most times scavenging for their daily bread from the garbage. And they ARE Kenya citizens, who are served by more than 80 members of cabinet!
Although we cannot fault the present day Kalembes, Nyachaes, Karumes, Michukis, I certainly miss the diplomatic, political and business acumen of the latter-day Mboyas, Oukos and Godanas.
We can only say congratulations for winning the UNPSA award. But we also ask; IS THIS THE LEGACY KIBAKI WANTS TO LEAVE IN KENYA?
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
archive
By Phil
I watched in amusement early this month when an excited President Kibaki refused to hand over the UNPSA award to his Aide de Camp prior to addressing members of his cabinet at State House. It was a sight to behold because this was a special ceremony that required the attendance of all ministers, their assistant ministers, permanent secretaries and other senior government officials.
The United Nations Public Service Awards (UNPSA) is one of the most prestigious international recognition of excellence in public service. It rewards the creative achievements and contributions of public service institutions to a more effective and responsive public administration in countries worldwide. Through an annual competition, the UN Public Service Awards promotes the role, professionalism and visibility of public service.
The award was as a result of GoKs introduction of performance contracts to all members of the public service. The awarded itself is solicited by way of submitting nominations online to the UNPSA.
In the excitement of receiving its first (and so far only) international award, the GoK could be excused for turning this into an official public ceremony. While chauffeur-driven members of cabinet and permanent secretaries were busy uncorking expensive champagne bottles at the State House ball room on tax-payers account, low cadre civil / public servants who earned this award continue to survive on sacco loans, pyramid schemes (sic), merciless shylocks and merry-go-round initiatives.
Never mind that this was a solicited award....
Never mind that the actual recipients of this award are those clerks you see at Nyayo/Harambee House and other government / public service institutions nationwide.
Against the backdrop of receiving this award, the Kibaki regime conveniently forgot that the Kenya Cabinet itself remains a blatant display of tribalism and cronyism. It is a classic example of how political survival overrides critical considerations like, for instance, to ensuring that appointments to the cabinet give due respect cultural and ethnic diversity of the country Kenya. The President has unfortunately taken full advantage of constitutional failings to appoint ministers based on his own personal whims.
Even as Assistant Ministers raise serious questions about their individual roles in cabinet, the cabinet itself remains the largest since independence with a record 34 full ministers and 50 assistant ministers thus creating a large bloated Cabinet of 84 members. This number could be more only that some slots are not filled as they serve a perfect carrot and stick in parliamentary business!.
Never mind that Kibaki's own pre-election pledge was to create a cabinet of not more than 20 persons!!
Never mind that a significant members of this cabinet were elected on a KANU ticket, supposedly the official opposition party in parliament!
Never mind that an even larger number of members of this cabinet were elected on a FORD-P ticket, which was effectively a competitor of NARC in 2002 general elections!
Never mind that the terminology 'Government of National Unity' is completely alien to our constitution!
More importantly however is that the country is yet to come to terms with the cost implications of appointing (idle) assistant ministers, their permanent secretaries, personal assistants, office support staff, security staff at all their residences, pool of motor vehicles, renting of office space, etc, etc. I wonder if those fellows at UNPSA ever bothered to check out these excesses. On top of their Sh887,500 pay as MPs, assistant ministers earn Sh100,000 responsibility allowance while Cabinet ministers pocket Sh200,000 each. They also enjoy other perks making the Government spent more than Sh600 million on their allowances each financial year - I was told enough to build 300 fully-equipped classrooms at a cost of Sh200,000 each. You do the math and tell us the sum of what idle assistant ministers ALONE are costing the Kenya economy annually. We shall add the cost implications of PS's PA's, support staff, motor vehicle pool of at least 6 cars and personal & residential security when we get over the massive shock of how much it will cost in total when Kibaki completes his 5 year term. It is surely horrific!
Never mind that nearly 4 million Kenyan citizens in Eastern, North Eastern and parts of Rift Valley provinces are 100% dependent on WFP food aid.
Never mind that fishermen along banks of Lake Victoria are being fleeced by middlemen for ignorance and lack of cold-storage facilities.
Never mind that thousands of Kenya citizens (young and old) do not have a place their call home and many of them are referred to as 'chokoras'. They are homeless, highly vulnarable and they spend most times scavenging for their daily bread from the garbage. And they ARE Kenya citizens, who are served by more than 80 members of cabinet!
Although we cannot fault the present day Kalembes, Nyachaes, Karumes, Michukis, I certainly miss the diplomatic, political and business acumen of the latter-day Mboyas, Oukos and Godanas.
We can only say congratulations for winning the UNPSA award. But we also ask; IS THIS THE LEGACY KIBAKI WANTS TO LEAVE IN KENYA?
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Dangerous Presidents: What Candidates Are Missing That Will Have Deadly Consequences
archive
It is amazing how very few Kenyans are able to see the ticking time bomb that is in the country today. Even now when it is before our very eyes in increased violence and unexplainable crime wave levels.
One of the things that the Moi administration did was to dramatically increase the number of university graduates the country churns out every year. This is both a good thing and also a very bad thing. A good thing in that Kenya is now reaping dividends in massive foreign exchange inflows from professionals working abroad. In fact repatriated cash from Kenyans working in virtually every country of the world you can think of is the highest foreign exchange earner currently.
It is a bad thing in that a lot of these highly educated young people are jobless and frustrated. The most dangerous thing for Kenya is the fact that we have too many people who are frustrated and have nothing to lose. That is one of the reasons why the Mungiki terror gang continues to recruit in large numbers.
There is nothing more dangerous than having millions of people who go around mostly hungry and have no idea where their next meal is going to come from. These are extremely dangerous masses to have because they really have nothing to lose.
This is why the next government must pay very close attention to this problem and come up with creative solutions as a matter of urgency. As it is now, none of the presidential candidates has come up with any viable ideas of dealing with this problem.
One of the laughable things about the whole lot of them is that they believe that by attracting big industry foreign investors, Kenya will be able to deal with its' unemployment crisis. This is typical 70s thinking and it worked then. But trying to apply the same solution today is a big joke.
In those heady days of the 70s factories were pretty labor intensive and PCs and automated assembly lines had not really arrived on the scene. But times have changed. It is actually very difficult and extremely rare today to get a factory anywhere today that will use a labor force that numbers as many as 500 persons (just do your research). However for argument sakes let us assume that we can attract foreign investors in large numbers to Kenya who can set up industries that will create 1,000 jobs each. Let us go overboard in optimism and assume that we can attract 100 of these every year (virtually impossible when we are competing with countries with better infrastructure and other advantages over us). That would create 100,000 new jobs every year. Is that the kind of number that would even make a dent on the unemployment problem in Kenya?
Of course not!
Let us wake up to how huge this problem is. It can be solved by thinking outside the box and having a government that recognizes the fact that having unemployment as the top priority is not an option but the only way to go. Obviously I have my own ideas which I believe can work well and get a large percentage of the frustrated voiceless masses of Kenya working and many in the political class are reading this and hoping to "steal" some of the better ideas for their campaigns and so called visions. So this is not the time for me to talk about them.
However one thing I would like to say is that re-electing the current government would be a disaster because its' policies leans heavily on attracting foreign investors to create jobs. Just one question I want to ask. Why should any genuine foreign investor find Kenya attractive when the local investors do not and are mostly struggling?
The Safaricoms are the exceptions because Kenyans are desperately making calls around looking for answers. The Kenya Breweries are also hugely successful because there are many who would not otherwise be able to remain sane with the kind of unprecedented challenges that they face.
Let me leave you with a clue as to where the answers to this nagging problem lies. Small businesses today—including micro businesses are recognized as the number one creator of jobs in the world. Clue number two: another answer lies in a resource which we have plenty of—the vast tracts of idle and mostly fertile land that we have in the country today.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
It is amazing how very few Kenyans are able to see the ticking time bomb that is in the country today. Even now when it is before our very eyes in increased violence and unexplainable crime wave levels.
One of the things that the Moi administration did was to dramatically increase the number of university graduates the country churns out every year. This is both a good thing and also a very bad thing. A good thing in that Kenya is now reaping dividends in massive foreign exchange inflows from professionals working abroad. In fact repatriated cash from Kenyans working in virtually every country of the world you can think of is the highest foreign exchange earner currently.
It is a bad thing in that a lot of these highly educated young people are jobless and frustrated. The most dangerous thing for Kenya is the fact that we have too many people who are frustrated and have nothing to lose. That is one of the reasons why the Mungiki terror gang continues to recruit in large numbers.
There is nothing more dangerous than having millions of people who go around mostly hungry and have no idea where their next meal is going to come from. These are extremely dangerous masses to have because they really have nothing to lose.
This is why the next government must pay very close attention to this problem and come up with creative solutions as a matter of urgency. As it is now, none of the presidential candidates has come up with any viable ideas of dealing with this problem.
One of the laughable things about the whole lot of them is that they believe that by attracting big industry foreign investors, Kenya will be able to deal with its' unemployment crisis. This is typical 70s thinking and it worked then. But trying to apply the same solution today is a big joke.
In those heady days of the 70s factories were pretty labor intensive and PCs and automated assembly lines had not really arrived on the scene. But times have changed. It is actually very difficult and extremely rare today to get a factory anywhere today that will use a labor force that numbers as many as 500 persons (just do your research). However for argument sakes let us assume that we can attract foreign investors in large numbers to Kenya who can set up industries that will create 1,000 jobs each. Let us go overboard in optimism and assume that we can attract 100 of these every year (virtually impossible when we are competing with countries with better infrastructure and other advantages over us). That would create 100,000 new jobs every year. Is that the kind of number that would even make a dent on the unemployment problem in Kenya?
Of course not!
Let us wake up to how huge this problem is. It can be solved by thinking outside the box and having a government that recognizes the fact that having unemployment as the top priority is not an option but the only way to go. Obviously I have my own ideas which I believe can work well and get a large percentage of the frustrated voiceless masses of Kenya working and many in the political class are reading this and hoping to "steal" some of the better ideas for their campaigns and so called visions. So this is not the time for me to talk about them.
However one thing I would like to say is that re-electing the current government would be a disaster because its' policies leans heavily on attracting foreign investors to create jobs. Just one question I want to ask. Why should any genuine foreign investor find Kenya attractive when the local investors do not and are mostly struggling?
The Safaricoms are the exceptions because Kenyans are desperately making calls around looking for answers. The Kenya Breweries are also hugely successful because there are many who would not otherwise be able to remain sane with the kind of unprecedented challenges that they face.
Let me leave you with a clue as to where the answers to this nagging problem lies. Small businesses today—including micro businesses are recognized as the number one creator of jobs in the world. Clue number two: another answer lies in a resource which we have plenty of—the vast tracts of idle and mostly fertile land that we have in the country today.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
The Amazing Kenyan Economy: Shilling Strengthens But Prices Rise Steeply
archive
One does not need to be an economist to grasp a simple truth.
When the currency of a country strengthens against major foreign currencies, it means that imported inputs become cheaper and costs of production and distribution of products and services should fall (and this impacts everybody because goods also need to be transported and a stronger shilling means that we need less shillings to buy petrol for example). In other words it is rather obvious that prices should fall.
But look at the situation in Kenya today. As the shilling continues to strengthen, the prices continue to go up.
So what's wrong? What's causing prices to stubbornly continue going up? What is the point of having a strong shilling that hurts our exporters and everybody who sells stuff to the outside world in foreign currency (and has already caused the loss of thousands of jobs) and yet the whole thing does not benefit the rest of the country?
Amazingly even oil prices, which are supposed to be adjusted downwards with the falling dollar have stayed put and on a number of occasions have even snaked upwards.
What's going on?
I will answer that question in two sentences. The first sentence will be a short one word one and the second one will be fairly long.
Greed.
So-called government-friendly businessmen (who are obviously corrupt because you can't get more corrupt that when you corrupt the authorities) who want to make maximum windfall profits in the short time left before the elections because one can never be sure which government will come in next. E.g. well-known sugar barons.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
One does not need to be an economist to grasp a simple truth.
When the currency of a country strengthens against major foreign currencies, it means that imported inputs become cheaper and costs of production and distribution of products and services should fall (and this impacts everybody because goods also need to be transported and a stronger shilling means that we need less shillings to buy petrol for example). In other words it is rather obvious that prices should fall.
But look at the situation in Kenya today. As the shilling continues to strengthen, the prices continue to go up.
So what's wrong? What's causing prices to stubbornly continue going up? What is the point of having a strong shilling that hurts our exporters and everybody who sells stuff to the outside world in foreign currency (and has already caused the loss of thousands of jobs) and yet the whole thing does not benefit the rest of the country?
Amazingly even oil prices, which are supposed to be adjusted downwards with the falling dollar have stayed put and on a number of occasions have even snaked upwards.
What's going on?
I will answer that question in two sentences. The first sentence will be a short one word one and the second one will be fairly long.
Greed.
So-called government-friendly businessmen (who are obviously corrupt because you can't get more corrupt that when you corrupt the authorities) who want to make maximum windfall profits in the short time left before the elections because one can never be sure which government will come in next. E.g. well-known sugar barons.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Saturday, July 14, 2007
Kalonzo Musyoka’s Worst Nightmare
archive
From the latest Steadmann Polls, we now know why Kalonzo Musyoka wanted the ODM presidential candidate decided early. What his handlers feared would happen has come to pass, at least according to the latest poll where he has continued to slip further behind as Raila surges ahead.
We also know that amongst the “lies peddled by current prominent ODM luminaries was that Kalonzo would be the opposition’s presidential candidate. That would explain the sudden popularity of the Mwingi North MP and his high score even in Luo Nyanza for the presidency. But now that the rift within ODM has become common knowledge, it seems that the popularity of the candidate is melting fast before our very eyes.
I have always said that I do not consider the Steadmann polls accurate and I have not changed my position. The polls reflect mostly the feelings of Kenyans who have their heads above the water. The millions of voiceless fellow countrymen whom it is claimed live on a dollar a day (actually many of them don’t see that amount of cash in a year) are yet to have their say.
I could take the Steadmann pollsters to parts of Mathare, Kibera and Dagoretti where if they will refuse to believe that they are in Kenya.
But what is even more disturbing about the ODM nomination is that my reseach shows that there is a significant number of voters who will cross to Narc-Kenya if Kalonzo fails to be named the ODM-presidential candidate. Probably not enough to mean defeat for a Raila led ODM, but still significant enough to be anxious about. Sadly this also includes ordinary folk on the ground.
President Kibaki 45%
Raila Odinga 25%
Kalonzo Musyoka 11%
Musalia Mudavadi 3%
Uhuru Kenyatta 2%
William Ruto 2%
Undecided 7%
Will not vote 1%
No preferred candidate 1%
Poll conducted June 27th to July 4th 2007
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
From the latest Steadmann Polls, we now know why Kalonzo Musyoka wanted the ODM presidential candidate decided early. What his handlers feared would happen has come to pass, at least according to the latest poll where he has continued to slip further behind as Raila surges ahead.
We also know that amongst the “lies peddled by current prominent ODM luminaries was that Kalonzo would be the opposition’s presidential candidate. That would explain the sudden popularity of the Mwingi North MP and his high score even in Luo Nyanza for the presidency. But now that the rift within ODM has become common knowledge, it seems that the popularity of the candidate is melting fast before our very eyes.
I have always said that I do not consider the Steadmann polls accurate and I have not changed my position. The polls reflect mostly the feelings of Kenyans who have their heads above the water. The millions of voiceless fellow countrymen whom it is claimed live on a dollar a day (actually many of them don’t see that amount of cash in a year) are yet to have their say.
I could take the Steadmann pollsters to parts of Mathare, Kibera and Dagoretti where if they will refuse to believe that they are in Kenya.
But what is even more disturbing about the ODM nomination is that my reseach shows that there is a significant number of voters who will cross to Narc-Kenya if Kalonzo fails to be named the ODM-presidential candidate. Probably not enough to mean defeat for a Raila led ODM, but still significant enough to be anxious about. Sadly this also includes ordinary folk on the ground.
President Kibaki 45%
Raila Odinga 25%
Kalonzo Musyoka 11%
Musalia Mudavadi 3%
Uhuru Kenyatta 2%
William Ruto 2%
Undecided 7%
Will not vote 1%
No preferred candidate 1%
Poll conducted June 27th to July 4th 2007
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Friday, July 13, 2007
Kalonzo Musyoka And The Top Kenyan Who Failed Badly In A Recent Job Interview
archive
Kenyans are renowned for their job interview skills.
In fact I have personally witnessed situations where Kenyans are so good at the job interview that they end up being disappointing at the actual job because they showed more promise than they actually possessed at the job interview. In the job market we refer to such candidates as "job interview professionals". So good at landing jobs, but hopeless when it comes to doing the actual work they landed a position to do.
The Mwingi North MP has sent an implication to a prospective employer for the position of CEO and recently in one of the interviews with his prospective employer he did what you never, EVER do at a job interview. He lost his temper. I once went to a job interview where the Italian executive did everything possible, and came very close to succeeding, in making me lose my temper. He made fun of my qualifications, mimicked something of the things I said in a comical jeering manner. Said things about my upbringing etc. I somehow kept my cool—and two days later when I was sure I was out of contention for the very competitive race for that marketing post, I received a telephone call that gave me the nod for the job and I was asked to report the next day.
I do not want to hurt any Kalonzo Musyoka die-hards here, but kindly allow me to show you something, because for better or for worse, you who is reading this is in the panel of decision makers who will finally seal the fate of the North Mwingi MP and decide whether he will land the job or not. You are much more powerful and have a bigger say in this matter than any ODM so-called panel of so-called elders.
So candidate Musyoka was standing in front his prospective employers and he lost his temper. Somebody pointed out to me quite rightly that if Mr Musyoka was already the president, a large section of that crowd would now be in police custody and maybe some of them would be dead. In retrospect, what would he have done faced with such a hostile mob?
There are several options. Firstly he would have called their bluff and used two words to instantly change the mood. The two words; "Raila Tosha." Or alternatively, "Nyundo Tosha." That would have instantly changed the mood of the rowdy mob and they would have instantly started listening to him. He would then have carefully steered the crowd in his direction. And the funny thing is that any well-read person of Mr Musyoka's caliber would tell you that politicians have been faced with this kind of challenge for centuries and I can give numerous examples.
Mt Musyoka has obviously not read William Shakespeare's political classic, Julius Caesar. In the play, Mark Anthony a close friend of the assassinated Julius Caesar is given a chance to speak at his funeral to a crowd that is already charged against the dead Caesar and his perceived dictatorial tendencies. He starts off by telling the crowd that he did not come to praise Caesar but to bury him. This is a refrain that he repeats often as he does the very opposite of it and works the crowd into such a frenzy of emotion and sympathy for the dead Caesar that the plotters have to flee leaving the mantle to Mark Anthony.
William Ruto on the other hand, whom most consider to be much more inferior to Kalonzo in terms of seniority spoke after Kalonzo had already handed over the microphone in frustration and did a much better job. He used the strategy that I have just talked about but went on to tell the crowd that incase they made the decision for a younger person, then the man to pick should be William "YK92" Ruto.
Make no mistake about it, the next CEO of the enterprise called "Kenya" will need to be somebody who thinks quickly on their feet and this is a key attribute and quality that is required. On that score the Mwingi North MP failed miserably.
Interestingly, the decision to hold the meeting in Mombasa was made because of Mr Musyoka who rejected the first choice—Uhuru park in Nairobi (probably fearing that he would meet the fate of one Simoen Nyachae) who could not believe his ears when Raila said those magical words; "Kibaki tosha," effectively deciding the third presidency. He also rejected the second suggestion—Nakuru but probably calculated that Mombasa has a huge enough population of his Akamba tribesmen to ensure that all would go well. But apparently his worst nightmare came true.
Many Kenyans don't realize it, but the more the squabbles continue within ODM, the more the party is being weakened. And it seems that every time they come close to an agreement on anything there is one dissenter and hundreds of decisions have to be made to concede to the wishes of that one person.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Kenyans are renowned for their job interview skills.
In fact I have personally witnessed situations where Kenyans are so good at the job interview that they end up being disappointing at the actual job because they showed more promise than they actually possessed at the job interview. In the job market we refer to such candidates as "job interview professionals". So good at landing jobs, but hopeless when it comes to doing the actual work they landed a position to do.
The Mwingi North MP has sent an implication to a prospective employer for the position of CEO and recently in one of the interviews with his prospective employer he did what you never, EVER do at a job interview. He lost his temper. I once went to a job interview where the Italian executive did everything possible, and came very close to succeeding, in making me lose my temper. He made fun of my qualifications, mimicked something of the things I said in a comical jeering manner. Said things about my upbringing etc. I somehow kept my cool—and two days later when I was sure I was out of contention for the very competitive race for that marketing post, I received a telephone call that gave me the nod for the job and I was asked to report the next day.
I do not want to hurt any Kalonzo Musyoka die-hards here, but kindly allow me to show you something, because for better or for worse, you who is reading this is in the panel of decision makers who will finally seal the fate of the North Mwingi MP and decide whether he will land the job or not. You are much more powerful and have a bigger say in this matter than any ODM so-called panel of so-called elders.
So candidate Musyoka was standing in front his prospective employers and he lost his temper. Somebody pointed out to me quite rightly that if Mr Musyoka was already the president, a large section of that crowd would now be in police custody and maybe some of them would be dead. In retrospect, what would he have done faced with such a hostile mob?
There are several options. Firstly he would have called their bluff and used two words to instantly change the mood. The two words; "Raila Tosha." Or alternatively, "Nyundo Tosha." That would have instantly changed the mood of the rowdy mob and they would have instantly started listening to him. He would then have carefully steered the crowd in his direction. And the funny thing is that any well-read person of Mr Musyoka's caliber would tell you that politicians have been faced with this kind of challenge for centuries and I can give numerous examples.
Mt Musyoka has obviously not read William Shakespeare's political classic, Julius Caesar. In the play, Mark Anthony a close friend of the assassinated Julius Caesar is given a chance to speak at his funeral to a crowd that is already charged against the dead Caesar and his perceived dictatorial tendencies. He starts off by telling the crowd that he did not come to praise Caesar but to bury him. This is a refrain that he repeats often as he does the very opposite of it and works the crowd into such a frenzy of emotion and sympathy for the dead Caesar that the plotters have to flee leaving the mantle to Mark Anthony.
William Ruto on the other hand, whom most consider to be much more inferior to Kalonzo in terms of seniority spoke after Kalonzo had already handed over the microphone in frustration and did a much better job. He used the strategy that I have just talked about but went on to tell the crowd that incase they made the decision for a younger person, then the man to pick should be William "YK92" Ruto.
Make no mistake about it, the next CEO of the enterprise called "Kenya" will need to be somebody who thinks quickly on their feet and this is a key attribute and quality that is required. On that score the Mwingi North MP failed miserably.
Interestingly, the decision to hold the meeting in Mombasa was made because of Mr Musyoka who rejected the first choice—Uhuru park in Nairobi (probably fearing that he would meet the fate of one Simoen Nyachae) who could not believe his ears when Raila said those magical words; "Kibaki tosha," effectively deciding the third presidency. He also rejected the second suggestion—Nakuru but probably calculated that Mombasa has a huge enough population of his Akamba tribesmen to ensure that all would go well. But apparently his worst nightmare came true.
Many Kenyans don't realize it, but the more the squabbles continue within ODM, the more the party is being weakened. And it seems that every time they come close to an agreement on anything there is one dissenter and hundreds of decisions have to be made to concede to the wishes of that one person.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
A Time And A Chance For Change In Kenya
archive
Bill Gates, until recently the richest man in the world and founder of Microsoft, once said that the reason why he did the sort of thing that if he were a Kenyan would have resulted in a curse from the clan (that is dropping out of Harvard) was because he saw a window of opportunity. And he took it.
Obviously windows of opportunity do not remain open indefinitely and had Mr Gates waited, Microsoft and his fortunes would never have been.
This is the reason why I have made an impassioned plea to our brothers who would rather wait for 2012 to get involved in any initiative to bring about change in Kenya. We have a unique window of opportunity now that has been created by the hopelessness amongst the ordinary Kenyans on the ground who are ripe to do anything, including putting down their tribal hats, to bring about peaceful change in our beloved country.
I hereby reproduce my arguments below;
My dear brothers,
I urge you to resist this talk of 2012. Here is a balance sheet of reasons why;
What we have to lose
- The worst that can happen is that we will make a total fool of ourselves. That is what young Kenyans fear the most. But what does a person lose in the process of losing face? Really think about it. Abraham Lincoln lost face numerous times be4 he became president. Kibaki lost face twice b4 he became president. My friends, this is the biggest obstacle young Kenyans have and nobody ever succeeded on a clean slate, it doesn’t happen even in the movies.
- It is risky, yes. Waking up every morning and leaving your front door is risky. So why not stick indoors and sleep the whole day?
What we have to gain
a) In the process of losing the presidency we could win many parliamentary seats
b) We could plant the seeds of victory in 2012. If we postpone to 2012, we postpone planting the seeds and hopefully we will make it in 2017… if there is a country left.
c) There is a good chance of winning. Why? Because Kenyans are already fed up and are just looking for the person to rally behind.
d) There are many ways to skin a cat. Going round the whole country introducing a presidential candidate is one way. There are dozens of others. To give you one example, there are those who believe that the legitimate winner of the 2002 elections was Kenneth Matiba. Do some research and see if the sick man held any rallies anywhere in the country. By the way he defeated Kibaki who used the strategy you suggest. WAKE UP FOLKS. Please, your country depends on it. Please think out of the box.
e) In case you don’t know we are in a very desperate situation in Kenya today. There are certain things that if they are not addressed will mean that our country will not be able to hold together much longer. We can’t just sit and start “dreaming” about 2012. We need to do something and we need to do it NOW.
f) I am not at liberty to tell-all because our enemies are also reading this. But we have a choice of candidates who are already known to Kenyans and using media skills and sound strategy can be on the lips of all Kenyans tomorrow morning. Don’t forget that Kenyans are looking for a Moses and when they recognize him, everything else will fall into place faster than you can say "2012."
g) For the umpteenth time, nobody climbed the ladder of victory with cold feet based on the possibility of losing face just because they lost. So what!!
h) Finally I will tell you all what I told Senator Barrack Obama last year when he was still saying that his standing for president was "out of question." I simply quoted from the good book.
I have seen something else under the sun:
The race is not to the swift
or the battle to the strong,
nor does food come to the wise
or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
P.S. There is no problem if the neighbor’s dog wants to stand for president. So what! Does it take any Ugali from my plate? Please read yesterday’s article. KENYA IS NOT A KINGDOM. ANYBODY CAN BE PREZO or stand for president. Anybody!!! Who was Kenyatta before he was president? A nobody, he didn’t even know who his parents were (you know what such people are called in society?).And before he was prezo he lost face. He was photographed in newspapers around the world in handcuffs, a common criminal. Some of you guys probably think Kenyatta was jailed for being a freedom fighter—there is no such offence.
For the love of the motherland,
-Kumekucha-
Please join in the debate by leaving a comment
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Bill Gates, until recently the richest man in the world and founder of Microsoft, once said that the reason why he did the sort of thing that if he were a Kenyan would have resulted in a curse from the clan (that is dropping out of Harvard) was because he saw a window of opportunity. And he took it.
Obviously windows of opportunity do not remain open indefinitely and had Mr Gates waited, Microsoft and his fortunes would never have been.
This is the reason why I have made an impassioned plea to our brothers who would rather wait for 2012 to get involved in any initiative to bring about change in Kenya. We have a unique window of opportunity now that has been created by the hopelessness amongst the ordinary Kenyans on the ground who are ripe to do anything, including putting down their tribal hats, to bring about peaceful change in our beloved country.
I hereby reproduce my arguments below;
My dear brothers,
I urge you to resist this talk of 2012. Here is a balance sheet of reasons why;
What we have to lose
- The worst that can happen is that we will make a total fool of ourselves. That is what young Kenyans fear the most. But what does a person lose in the process of losing face? Really think about it. Abraham Lincoln lost face numerous times be4 he became president. Kibaki lost face twice b4 he became president. My friends, this is the biggest obstacle young Kenyans have and nobody ever succeeded on a clean slate, it doesn’t happen even in the movies.
- It is risky, yes. Waking up every morning and leaving your front door is risky. So why not stick indoors and sleep the whole day?
What we have to gain
a) In the process of losing the presidency we could win many parliamentary seats
b) We could plant the seeds of victory in 2012. If we postpone to 2012, we postpone planting the seeds and hopefully we will make it in 2017… if there is a country left.
c) There is a good chance of winning. Why? Because Kenyans are already fed up and are just looking for the person to rally behind.
d) There are many ways to skin a cat. Going round the whole country introducing a presidential candidate is one way. There are dozens of others. To give you one example, there are those who believe that the legitimate winner of the 2002 elections was Kenneth Matiba. Do some research and see if the sick man held any rallies anywhere in the country. By the way he defeated Kibaki who used the strategy you suggest. WAKE UP FOLKS. Please, your country depends on it. Please think out of the box.
e) In case you don’t know we are in a very desperate situation in Kenya today. There are certain things that if they are not addressed will mean that our country will not be able to hold together much longer. We can’t just sit and start “dreaming” about 2012. We need to do something and we need to do it NOW.
f) I am not at liberty to tell-all because our enemies are also reading this. But we have a choice of candidates who are already known to Kenyans and using media skills and sound strategy can be on the lips of all Kenyans tomorrow morning. Don’t forget that Kenyans are looking for a Moses and when they recognize him, everything else will fall into place faster than you can say "2012."
g) For the umpteenth time, nobody climbed the ladder of victory with cold feet based on the possibility of losing face just because they lost. So what!!
h) Finally I will tell you all what I told Senator Barrack Obama last year when he was still saying that his standing for president was "out of question." I simply quoted from the good book.
I have seen something else under the sun:
The race is not to the swift
or the battle to the strong,
nor does food come to the wise
or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned;
but time and chance happen to them all.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
P.S. There is no problem if the neighbor’s dog wants to stand for president. So what! Does it take any Ugali from my plate? Please read yesterday’s article. KENYA IS NOT A KINGDOM. ANYBODY CAN BE PREZO or stand for president. Anybody!!! Who was Kenyatta before he was president? A nobody, he didn’t even know who his parents were (you know what such people are called in society?).And before he was prezo he lost face. He was photographed in newspapers around the world in handcuffs, a common criminal. Some of you guys probably think Kenyatta was jailed for being a freedom fighter—there is no such offence.
For the love of the motherland,
-Kumekucha-
Please join in the debate by leaving a comment
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Thursday, July 12, 2007
The 4th President Project Update No 1
archive
It is amazing what happens when two or three minds get together. You can imagine what will happen when our numbers reach 2 or 3 million, which will be very soon. As I write this I already have very workable detailed strategic action plans of how to meet our objective here that have arrived via email.
I take this opportunity to thank all those who have already volunteered to "get their hands dirty" towards meeting our 4th President project whose objective is to put a president of our choice into State house. I really like what Jeff said in a comment elsewhere in this blog. I have reproduced his comments below. The most striking thing is that things have already started happeneing and if anything comes out of this we can never claim to be the ones who started it. Kenyans everywhere are already fed up and have decided to do something.
Let us debate this issue further for a week or so, anybody with a workable strategy can send it in via email. On my part I will be giving you guys a regular update here and will be titling all my posts on this subject The 4th President Project Update No X. After a week I will tell you what our next plan of action will be. meanwhile please read my main post of today because this a mindset many of you will find blocking you when you discuss some of our radical ideas here with others elsewhere.
God bless Kenya, our beloved motherland and the Kenyans holding on to the dream.
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "The 4th President Of Kenya":
I totally agree with gachinga above that if we are to actualise this project "we have to fold our sleeves and get down to actual, dirty, tiring & frustrating work. Talk is good, talk is inspiring, but talk without actions is nothing".
We (all Kenyans with our country's interest first, then us second) need to talk/write AND act. NOW!. Otherwise come Jan 2008 and we realise we have been shafted we will only have ourselves to blame.
Success may not be assured. You do not get into projects only when you are assured of success! Indeed success = several failures! My point is whether we succeed or not we will have created such an impact so as to ensure success at a later date (if we fail) or continued success for our country (if we succeed).
This is what we have done at our ward level. This guy has been councillor for the last 34 years with nothing to show for all this time. In Kenyan politics this is not a guy you can run against and defeat easily. So mid last year a group of us came together and decided enough is enough. We have caused enough heat at the grassroots this guy spends sleepless nights. Whether our chosen candidate wins or not we are sure politics at our ward will never be the same again.
We are going a step further to influence who gets the MP position. We are only waiting for the drama in the political parties to shape up. (You see, our MP is an influential member in one of the main political parties). Forgive me if am shallow on details.
This kind of activity is taking place in several other constituencies/wards that i know of. These are people already participating in bringing change in their environments.
All is required is for us (as defined above) to come together (physically/cyberspace), come up with potential candidates, sell the idea to them, select the best from those who agree, then get ouselves dirty (sell the candidate). Like any launch of a new product (as Patrick of Nairobi Star would tell you), this requires alot of hard work. And commitment. Any volunteers? Obviously, am in! JEFF
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
It is amazing what happens when two or three minds get together. You can imagine what will happen when our numbers reach 2 or 3 million, which will be very soon. As I write this I already have very workable detailed strategic action plans of how to meet our objective here that have arrived via email.
I take this opportunity to thank all those who have already volunteered to "get their hands dirty" towards meeting our 4th President project whose objective is to put a president of our choice into State house. I really like what Jeff said in a comment elsewhere in this blog. I have reproduced his comments below. The most striking thing is that things have already started happeneing and if anything comes out of this we can never claim to be the ones who started it. Kenyans everywhere are already fed up and have decided to do something.
Let us debate this issue further for a week or so, anybody with a workable strategy can send it in via email. On my part I will be giving you guys a regular update here and will be titling all my posts on this subject The 4th President Project Update No X. After a week I will tell you what our next plan of action will be. meanwhile please read my main post of today because this a mindset many of you will find blocking you when you discuss some of our radical ideas here with others elsewhere.
God bless Kenya, our beloved motherland and the Kenyans holding on to the dream.
Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "The 4th President Of Kenya":
I totally agree with gachinga above that if we are to actualise this project "we have to fold our sleeves and get down to actual, dirty, tiring & frustrating work. Talk is good, talk is inspiring, but talk without actions is nothing".
We (all Kenyans with our country's interest first, then us second) need to talk/write AND act. NOW!. Otherwise come Jan 2008 and we realise we have been shafted we will only have ourselves to blame.
Success may not be assured. You do not get into projects only when you are assured of success! Indeed success = several failures! My point is whether we succeed or not we will have created such an impact so as to ensure success at a later date (if we fail) or continued success for our country (if we succeed).
This is what we have done at our ward level. This guy has been councillor for the last 34 years with nothing to show for all this time. In Kenyan politics this is not a guy you can run against and defeat easily. So mid last year a group of us came together and decided enough is enough. We have caused enough heat at the grassroots this guy spends sleepless nights. Whether our chosen candidate wins or not we are sure politics at our ward will never be the same again.
We are going a step further to influence who gets the MP position. We are only waiting for the drama in the political parties to shape up. (You see, our MP is an influential member in one of the main political parties). Forgive me if am shallow on details.
This kind of activity is taking place in several other constituencies/wards that i know of. These are people already participating in bringing change in their environments.
All is required is for us (as defined above) to come together (physically/cyberspace), come up with potential candidates, sell the idea to them, select the best from those who agree, then get ouselves dirty (sell the candidate). Like any launch of a new product (as Patrick of Nairobi Star would tell you), this requires alot of hard work. And commitment. Any volunteers? Obviously, am in! JEFF
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Myth On The Presidency That Has Fooled Even Intelligent Kenyans
archive
How two unqualified chaps fooled a nation, the third simply appended his signature
The last time I checked, Kenya is not a kingdom. And yet that is precisely how even highly educated Kenyans some of whom read this blog treat the office of the president.
For those who are unaware, a King owns all their subjects and everything that they have. You breathe and live at the pleasure of your King. (An interesting aside here is that in our country all civil servants still serve at the pleasure of the president and that is why President Moi was within his constitutional rights one day when he instructed at a public meeting; Nikifika Nakuru sitaki nione hio nyangau English translation; When I reach Nakuru, I do not want to see that animal in office.") The Kings's word is not just final, it is the law and he can do as he pleases and those who question him quickly lose the weight on their shoulders. The same applies to a Queen when she inherits the throne as the sovereign as is the case in Britain at the moment. Although I must add that the United Kingdom is a very watered down version of a real Kingdom and the Prime Minister there has immense powers.
In the old days the way to greet a King was to literally worship him by lying prostrate on the ground on your stomach with your hands stretched forward (Kneeling was not good enough). Another interesting parallel here, was the time that Kuria Kanyingi told a public meeting in Moi's presence that if only the Almighty would allow it, he would without hesitation take a large chunk of his own life and given it to Moi so that he lives much longer for the benefit of Kenya—I often wish that there would have been a way for his maker to call his bluff. The results would have been hilarious. Another sober Kenyan announced at yet another public meeting that because he had greeted Moi, he was not going to wash his hands for a week. In response, the wananchi dutifully clapped enthusiastically finding this utterance rather intelligent).
It is because of the way Kenyans treat the office of the presidency that the vast majority of Kenyans do not believe anybody can be president. Uhuru Kenyatta, yes. An ordinary Kenyan called Ouma Njoroge, NO. Kumekucha, NO. There is a term that is used in thi blog commonly in comments that underlines this fact. I is "pretender." So Ouma Njoroge would be called a "pretender to the throne" and so would Kumekucha if he were to dare declare interest in the said office.
Naturally the current state of affairs did not emerge by accident, it was carefully cultivated over many years of threats, intimidations, assassinations and dismemebered private parts.
Johnstone Kamau who rose to be Kenya's first president (the world knows him by his nickname which stuck—Jomo Kenyatta) had no prior experience of leading anything or anybody other than being briefly the headmaster of some school. In fact there are those who say that Mr Kamau once upset quite a lot of people because when cash was raised for him to go abroad to represent the wishes of the freedom fighters who sent him, he later abandoned the cause to do his own things. Like study for a degree in anthropology and marry the mzungu maid at the house where he was a shamba boy (gardener). But I leave that to Historians to set the record straight because there was no way they could have done so when the man was alive and kept their genitals intact.
Was Johnstone Kamau the sort of man to unite the country that had been sharply divided by the colonialists among tribal lines in a deliberate and ruthless divide and rule policy? Hardly. This is the name man who wrote a book promoting Kikuyu chauvinism called Facing Mount Kenya. Little wonder that 80 per cent of his cabinet consisted of people from one tribe. And their actions clearly revealed their intention and thinking. They treated the Kenyan presidency like a Kingdom. King Kamau was on the throne and would hand over the monarchy to one of their own. Why else did they administer an oath to ensure that the presidency (monarchy) would not cross the Chania River? There are numerous other examples to prove this point.
To ensure that no enthusiastic Kenyans would get any bright ideas, those around the president deliberately created a perception of the office that still lingers today. Kenyans were not even allowed to discuss his possible death. That was treason according to long-serving Attorney General Charles Njonjo. Even discussing anything that touched anything that was close to him was punishable by death or detention without trial (if you were lucky). A man called Jean Marey Seroney will forever linger in the annals of Kenyan history because he was detained for uttering TWO lousy words and within the precincts of parliament at that. Martin Shikuku said; "Kanu is dead." Mr Seroney simply quipped; "That's obvious."
Those who could have challenged the King were dealt with. Tom Mboya, JM Kariuki, Kungu Karuma etc. So that by the time the King passed on in his sleep in August 1978, there was really nobody left. There was no national politician who could inspire the masses. The few remaining were languishing in detention. So the "monarchy" could easily have passed on to a member of the Kamau family and influential foreign publications like Time magazine said so in writing, putting forward the names of the President's closest confidante Mbiyu Koinange (Jeff Koinange's grandfather) and the president's nephew, Njoroge Mungai as the two most likely to ascend to the throne. But the Almighty had plans of his own. There were a few nishaps in some small tiny details.
The first thing that went wrong for the King's men was that Johnstone Kamau passed on in Mombasa, a few hours after Mbiyu Koinange had left for Nairobi. It was the only few hours in years that Mbiyu Koinange had been far from the President's side and that's the time he died. Amazing, is it not? So more importantly, Koinange was not around to activate the carefully laid-out plan of action. The second thing that went wrong was that the person who had been the real administrative rule of Kenya all along—Charles Njonjo decided that he was not going to hand over power just like that. Duncan Ndegwa's recently released biography has confirmed what we suspected all along—that the old man drifted in and out of regular comas most of the time during his last years in office, so the de-facto president during the last years was one Charles Mugane Njonjo. Njonjo hatched a plan (people say) to get the hapless-looking Vice President (a former P3 teacher) to be president for a little while and warm the seat for him.
One man called Paul Ngei wisely warned them all that if they allowed Daniel Moi to seat on the throne for even one day, they would never get the seat back. They ignored him, after all they were intelligent and they had gone to school much longer than the said Moi. The rest, as they say, is history.
Now here is the fascinating bit. The former teacher whom they all underestimated and had never seen the inside of a University ended up outsmarting all of them and immediately began on the road to demystifying the presidency. Those around him saw this as a weakness and bidded their time. After the failed August 1982 coup, Moi decided to go back to the Kenyatta system and way of doing things and ended up ruling with an iron hand for 24 years and despite all manner of attempts to remove him from power, the crafty Moi ended up voluntarily leaving office in 2002.
One thing was the undoing of the mighty Western powers in their many failed efforts to remove Moi. These guys have always assumed that anybody who cannot speak English fluently and without accent is NOT intelligent. They therefore greatly underestimated Moi whose only qualification was street-smartness and understudying President Kenyatta for 11 years. In the same way they have assumed that anybody who can speak the language flawlessly is intelligent. I shall not mention names.
But my point today is this. Most Kenyans believe deep inside that the presidency is reserved for royalty. You need special, well-known politicians (who have already stolen enough public funds to finance their bid for the presidency) to be president. Being president in Kenya is actually being King. You Must have "blue blood" running through your veins. That is why anybody who thinks otherwise, like Kumekucha is a dreamer.
John Githongo for president.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
How two unqualified chaps fooled a nation, the third simply appended his signature
The last time I checked, Kenya is not a kingdom. And yet that is precisely how even highly educated Kenyans some of whom read this blog treat the office of the president.
For those who are unaware, a King owns all their subjects and everything that they have. You breathe and live at the pleasure of your King. (An interesting aside here is that in our country all civil servants still serve at the pleasure of the president and that is why President Moi was within his constitutional rights one day when he instructed at a public meeting; Nikifika Nakuru sitaki nione hio nyangau English translation; When I reach Nakuru, I do not want to see that animal in office.") The Kings's word is not just final, it is the law and he can do as he pleases and those who question him quickly lose the weight on their shoulders. The same applies to a Queen when she inherits the throne as the sovereign as is the case in Britain at the moment. Although I must add that the United Kingdom is a very watered down version of a real Kingdom and the Prime Minister there has immense powers.
In the old days the way to greet a King was to literally worship him by lying prostrate on the ground on your stomach with your hands stretched forward (Kneeling was not good enough). Another interesting parallel here, was the time that Kuria Kanyingi told a public meeting in Moi's presence that if only the Almighty would allow it, he would without hesitation take a large chunk of his own life and given it to Moi so that he lives much longer for the benefit of Kenya—I often wish that there would have been a way for his maker to call his bluff. The results would have been hilarious. Another sober Kenyan announced at yet another public meeting that because he had greeted Moi, he was not going to wash his hands for a week. In response, the wananchi dutifully clapped enthusiastically finding this utterance rather intelligent).
It is because of the way Kenyans treat the office of the presidency that the vast majority of Kenyans do not believe anybody can be president. Uhuru Kenyatta, yes. An ordinary Kenyan called Ouma Njoroge, NO. Kumekucha, NO. There is a term that is used in thi blog commonly in comments that underlines this fact. I is "pretender." So Ouma Njoroge would be called a "pretender to the throne" and so would Kumekucha if he were to dare declare interest in the said office.
Naturally the current state of affairs did not emerge by accident, it was carefully cultivated over many years of threats, intimidations, assassinations and dismemebered private parts.
Johnstone Kamau who rose to be Kenya's first president (the world knows him by his nickname which stuck—Jomo Kenyatta) had no prior experience of leading anything or anybody other than being briefly the headmaster of some school. In fact there are those who say that Mr Kamau once upset quite a lot of people because when cash was raised for him to go abroad to represent the wishes of the freedom fighters who sent him, he later abandoned the cause to do his own things. Like study for a degree in anthropology and marry the mzungu maid at the house where he was a shamba boy (gardener). But I leave that to Historians to set the record straight because there was no way they could have done so when the man was alive and kept their genitals intact.
Was Johnstone Kamau the sort of man to unite the country that had been sharply divided by the colonialists among tribal lines in a deliberate and ruthless divide and rule policy? Hardly. This is the name man who wrote a book promoting Kikuyu chauvinism called Facing Mount Kenya. Little wonder that 80 per cent of his cabinet consisted of people from one tribe. And their actions clearly revealed their intention and thinking. They treated the Kenyan presidency like a Kingdom. King Kamau was on the throne and would hand over the monarchy to one of their own. Why else did they administer an oath to ensure that the presidency (monarchy) would not cross the Chania River? There are numerous other examples to prove this point.
To ensure that no enthusiastic Kenyans would get any bright ideas, those around the president deliberately created a perception of the office that still lingers today. Kenyans were not even allowed to discuss his possible death. That was treason according to long-serving Attorney General Charles Njonjo. Even discussing anything that touched anything that was close to him was punishable by death or detention without trial (if you were lucky). A man called Jean Marey Seroney will forever linger in the annals of Kenyan history because he was detained for uttering TWO lousy words and within the precincts of parliament at that. Martin Shikuku said; "Kanu is dead." Mr Seroney simply quipped; "That's obvious."
Those who could have challenged the King were dealt with. Tom Mboya, JM Kariuki, Kungu Karuma etc. So that by the time the King passed on in his sleep in August 1978, there was really nobody left. There was no national politician who could inspire the masses. The few remaining were languishing in detention. So the "monarchy" could easily have passed on to a member of the Kamau family and influential foreign publications like Time magazine said so in writing, putting forward the names of the President's closest confidante Mbiyu Koinange (Jeff Koinange's grandfather) and the president's nephew, Njoroge Mungai as the two most likely to ascend to the throne. But the Almighty had plans of his own. There were a few nishaps in some small tiny details.
The first thing that went wrong for the King's men was that Johnstone Kamau passed on in Mombasa, a few hours after Mbiyu Koinange had left for Nairobi. It was the only few hours in years that Mbiyu Koinange had been far from the President's side and that's the time he died. Amazing, is it not? So more importantly, Koinange was not around to activate the carefully laid-out plan of action. The second thing that went wrong was that the person who had been the real administrative rule of Kenya all along—Charles Njonjo decided that he was not going to hand over power just like that. Duncan Ndegwa's recently released biography has confirmed what we suspected all along—that the old man drifted in and out of regular comas most of the time during his last years in office, so the de-facto president during the last years was one Charles Mugane Njonjo. Njonjo hatched a plan (people say) to get the hapless-looking Vice President (a former P3 teacher) to be president for a little while and warm the seat for him.
One man called Paul Ngei wisely warned them all that if they allowed Daniel Moi to seat on the throne for even one day, they would never get the seat back. They ignored him, after all they were intelligent and they had gone to school much longer than the said Moi. The rest, as they say, is history.
Now here is the fascinating bit. The former teacher whom they all underestimated and had never seen the inside of a University ended up outsmarting all of them and immediately began on the road to demystifying the presidency. Those around him saw this as a weakness and bidded their time. After the failed August 1982 coup, Moi decided to go back to the Kenyatta system and way of doing things and ended up ruling with an iron hand for 24 years and despite all manner of attempts to remove him from power, the crafty Moi ended up voluntarily leaving office in 2002.
One thing was the undoing of the mighty Western powers in their many failed efforts to remove Moi. These guys have always assumed that anybody who cannot speak English fluently and without accent is NOT intelligent. They therefore greatly underestimated Moi whose only qualification was street-smartness and understudying President Kenyatta for 11 years. In the same way they have assumed that anybody who can speak the language flawlessly is intelligent. I shall not mention names.
But my point today is this. Most Kenyans believe deep inside that the presidency is reserved for royalty. You need special, well-known politicians (who have already stolen enough public funds to finance their bid for the presidency) to be president. Being president in Kenya is actually being King. You Must have "blue blood" running through your veins. That is why anybody who thinks otherwise, like Kumekucha is a dreamer.
John Githongo for president.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Kidnapped 3 Year Old Child's Severed Head And Hands Found On The Banks Of Nairobi River
archive
As the police supposedly continue to win their war against crime, a child disappeared on Sunday in the Baba Dogo area of Nairobi and the mother has been looking everywhere for the 3 year old boy.
Her search ended yesterday on the banks of Nairobi River when a hawker in search of maize to sell stumbled upon the body parts of what remained of the boy. It is not clear who informed the mother and she arrived at the scene before the police arrived to remove the body, to confirm that the head was indeed that of her missing son. Naturally she could not be consoled.
These are the kind of incidences that rogue TV stations like KTN air, that is not part of the careful my-men-returned-fire script that is now polluting airwaves. Many other similar incidences are happening all over the country as hapless Kenyans are kept busy fighting amongst themselves on behalf of their so-called favored presidential candidates most of whom are known thieves of public funds and characters fond of seeking refuge in the national assembly toilets when matters of national importance are being put to the vote in the August house.
The incident raises just too many questions. Top on the list is why? Children are innocent, so what was this youngster being punished for? And even if the action was targeted at the mother, a slum dweller, what was the motive? People usually kidnap children of the rich so as to get some sort of ransom. The woman involved has nothing. So why kidnap and kill her baby?
The only theory that comes anywhere near being plausible is that this is part of the politically motivated violence spreading countrywide ahead of the elections. Heads are cut to send a message and put fear in people so that they are easily manipulated by threats.
I urge you to do something now. Kindly take 3 minutes today to send out a few emails (see details here).
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
As the police supposedly continue to win their war against crime, a child disappeared on Sunday in the Baba Dogo area of Nairobi and the mother has been looking everywhere for the 3 year old boy.
Her search ended yesterday on the banks of Nairobi River when a hawker in search of maize to sell stumbled upon the body parts of what remained of the boy. It is not clear who informed the mother and she arrived at the scene before the police arrived to remove the body, to confirm that the head was indeed that of her missing son. Naturally she could not be consoled.
These are the kind of incidences that rogue TV stations like KTN air, that is not part of the careful my-men-returned-fire script that is now polluting airwaves. Many other similar incidences are happening all over the country as hapless Kenyans are kept busy fighting amongst themselves on behalf of their so-called favored presidential candidates most of whom are known thieves of public funds and characters fond of seeking refuge in the national assembly toilets when matters of national importance are being put to the vote in the August house.
The incident raises just too many questions. Top on the list is why? Children are innocent, so what was this youngster being punished for? And even if the action was targeted at the mother, a slum dweller, what was the motive? People usually kidnap children of the rich so as to get some sort of ransom. The woman involved has nothing. So why kidnap and kill her baby?
The only theory that comes anywhere near being plausible is that this is part of the politically motivated violence spreading countrywide ahead of the elections. Heads are cut to send a message and put fear in people so that they are easily manipulated by threats.
I urge you to do something now. Kindly take 3 minutes today to send out a few emails (see details here).
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
What Happened To The Wife After This FM Encounter?
archive
Guest Column
Your guess is as good as mine over what the fate of the Kenyans talked about the following guest column was. This piece is fropm a lady who runs a blog called Jamii ya Kenya. Visit her blog and leave some encouraging remarks there. Let us promote everything Kenyan, especially our ladies who have so far mostly "chickened out" of leaving comments here (but I know they read);
Please Style Up
In the morning and evening switching on to some FM stations in Kenya and you hear something like this:
We are talking about Jane (not her real name), she is complaining that she's been denied conjugal rights by her husband for 2 months now. She is now wondering what to do and even contemplating getting into an affair with another man.
People are asked to call with advice and comments, some comments are very nasty like a man asking her to look for him, he can do the work very well, some lady advising her to get into an affair and so many more.
The other example is a lady calling another station saying she doesn't trust her husband or boyfriend so the lady presenter decides to call the man, pretending to be calling from a company to present the man with tickets for a romantic night for two. He will then be asked whether he will be going with his wife or girlfriend, the man not aware that he is being busted like the name of the program, will declare that he is not married and will be taking his girlfriend with him. He will be asked to repeat and he will do so not knowing that the wife is listening on the other side, at that point he will be asked are you sure you are not married then they will connect the wife and tell her you heard. An argument will ensue between husband and wife on air until the man decides to disconnect.
As much as relationships have problems and a lot of marriages are not working, I don't think this is the right channel to address or solve such issues. There are counselors all over, one can even go to their religious leaders for counseling and advice. Friends and family can also come in but not FM stations.
My appeal to woman and men who take this option to solve their problems,
Please style up!
Posted JAMII YA KENYA blog http://jamiiyakenya.blogspot.com
Welcome to my Blog, I thought of starting a blog on issues affecting the Kenyan family especially Women & Children
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Guest Column
Your guess is as good as mine over what the fate of the Kenyans talked about the following guest column was. This piece is fropm a lady who runs a blog called Jamii ya Kenya. Visit her blog and leave some encouraging remarks there. Let us promote everything Kenyan, especially our ladies who have so far mostly "chickened out" of leaving comments here (but I know they read);
Please Style Up
In the morning and evening switching on to some FM stations in Kenya and you hear something like this:
We are talking about Jane (not her real name), she is complaining that she's been denied conjugal rights by her husband for 2 months now. She is now wondering what to do and even contemplating getting into an affair with another man.
People are asked to call with advice and comments, some comments are very nasty like a man asking her to look for him, he can do the work very well, some lady advising her to get into an affair and so many more.
The other example is a lady calling another station saying she doesn't trust her husband or boyfriend so the lady presenter decides to call the man, pretending to be calling from a company to present the man with tickets for a romantic night for two. He will then be asked whether he will be going with his wife or girlfriend, the man not aware that he is being busted like the name of the program, will declare that he is not married and will be taking his girlfriend with him. He will be asked to repeat and he will do so not knowing that the wife is listening on the other side, at that point he will be asked are you sure you are not married then they will connect the wife and tell her you heard. An argument will ensue between husband and wife on air until the man decides to disconnect.
As much as relationships have problems and a lot of marriages are not working, I don't think this is the right channel to address or solve such issues. There are counselors all over, one can even go to their religious leaders for counseling and advice. Friends and family can also come in but not FM stations.
My appeal to woman and men who take this option to solve their problems,
Please style up!
Posted JAMII YA KENYA blog http://jamiiyakenya.blogspot.com
Welcome to my Blog, I thought of starting a blog on issues affecting the Kenyan family especially Women & Children
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
How Rampant Lawlessness In Kenya Today Started From The Top
archive
Yesterday a mysterious fire broke out at a primary school in Kawangware. Despite several frantic calls to the fire department and their assurance that they were on the way, they did not arrive until well over an hour when the fire had already done a lot of damage. The mob that had gathered around went berserk and started throwing stones at the fire engine and pelting the firemen with everything they could lay their hands on.
Most of readers pointed out quite correctly the inhuman manner in which an adulterous woman and her lover were paraded stark naked in the streets in broad daylight after being caught red handed in the act. (see photographs for yourself. Be warned they are quite explicit).
At the same time, we know that various private armies and terror groups have taken over parts of the country and have caused several deaths. Kenyans have forgotten about Mount Elgon but terror still reigns there. And closer to the city, there is fear and dread of Mungiki.
Then we have a leading daily newspaper, which on suspecting that their former crime editor was involved in some undesirable campaign against them, took the law into their own hands and had him arrested by police. They chose this path rather than file charges against him in court (if they had the evidence). It was mainly due to the hue and cry and protests by many of you readers in this blog that the matter was abandoned. But now it seems that Muiruri may be in trouble again after writing a letter to all MPs urging them to pass the media bill after saying one or two things about the troubles he has had with his former employers and some police bosses.
All this incidences are related (be patient and I will explain in a minute) and have something to do with mounting lawlessness in the country as we head to the general elections. There is genuine fear that if this is what we are seeing now, then we will need divine intervention to have a country still intact after the polls.
I talked to a police officer today and our conversation went something like this;
Policeman: If there was a place where I would go and return after the elections, I could have quickly gone there.
Kumekucha: Why? What shall we ordinary folks expected to do if you policemen, our protectors, are scared?
Policeman: We policemen are mere mortals like you and we can also be killed. What I will do on elections day (if we get there) is to vote very early in the morning and then I'll lock myself in the house the whole day.
Lawlessness starts from the top and has now trickled down to the common man. This is how it happens.
i) Highest authority in the land ignores court order and goes ahead to grab KICC from its; rightful owners. Available records clearly show that contrary to popular belief, Kanu the political party are the rightful owners of the building, which was built with funds organized for by the late Tom Mboya. This is just one example. On many other occasions the government has ignored court orders and gone ahead and done as they have pleased.
ii) Right on cue a cabinet minister becomes a law unto herself and harasses members of the press for making comments about a curious incident where she was carjacked while with a popular Catholic church priest at an ungodly hour of the night. The same cabinet minister pushes for the prosecution (obviously using her influence) of an alternative press editor who dared to publish a story in similar vein.
iii) A prosperous businessman who is owed some cash by another struggling small business bribes policemen at Kamukunji police station to arrest the person and lock them up without trial well beyond the stipulated 48 hours until their relatives can scramble around doing quick fundraisers to raise the debt which now also includes the hefty bribe given to the OCS. It is not good to owe people money that you can't pay, but this is a civil case and there are procedures to be followed before somebody can be committed to civil jail. They are ignored as the businessman is a law unto himself just as leading daily newspaper was a law unto itself sending policemen to arrest its' former employee, searching his office without a search warrant and with absolutely no evidence—only suspicions and bile potent enough to kill several hundred chickens.
iv) The same prosperous businessman has failed to pay his workers, especially the ones who worked on the unpaid job. But even after getting his money (the guy was a guest of the state at the police cells for about a week before the cash could be raised), he refused to pay his workers one of whom walks every day from Kawangware to the business premises in the Kilimani area to check whether his payment is ready. Ironically what the amount the poor Kenyan is chasing is triple what this businessman spends at a well known up-market watering hole (also in the Kilimani area) on a good Friday night. The worker tries to go to the labor office and several visits later is even forced to bribe the labor officer. The labor guys visit the businessman once and the matter ends there. They keep on giving false promises. It is not clear whether they were bribed or just intimidated by the businessman.
vi) The common man at the bottom of this vicious food chain takes every opportunity to be a law unto themselves because that is the example leaders are leading with. Nobody respects the law so how do we expect the common man to respect it? Why are we surprised when there is so much lawlessness in the country? Why do we even raise an eyebrow when wananchi stone firemen answering an emergency call?
Meanwhile every day we see monotonous, carefully packaged stories in the media that are designed to convince us that the police are winning the war against crime. Always the news clips are the same of gangsters gunned down by police, always with the same looking guns recovered. Right on cue the police commissioner tells us the same thing;
"We have identified the other culprits, we know who they are. My officers are pursuing them. It is only a matter of time…"
That's Kenya for you and a police force that is winning the war against crime amid rising lawlessness and insecurity.
Methinks that this is just window dressing to be used in election campaigns later this year to prove that the government has a handle on the situation. The truth, I assure you, you cannot handle.
The truth is that the battle and the war were lost a long time ago. And it all started at the top.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Yesterday a mysterious fire broke out at a primary school in Kawangware. Despite several frantic calls to the fire department and their assurance that they were on the way, they did not arrive until well over an hour when the fire had already done a lot of damage. The mob that had gathered around went berserk and started throwing stones at the fire engine and pelting the firemen with everything they could lay their hands on.
Most of readers pointed out quite correctly the inhuman manner in which an adulterous woman and her lover were paraded stark naked in the streets in broad daylight after being caught red handed in the act. (see photographs for yourself. Be warned they are quite explicit).
At the same time, we know that various private armies and terror groups have taken over parts of the country and have caused several deaths. Kenyans have forgotten about Mount Elgon but terror still reigns there. And closer to the city, there is fear and dread of Mungiki.
Then we have a leading daily newspaper, which on suspecting that their former crime editor was involved in some undesirable campaign against them, took the law into their own hands and had him arrested by police. They chose this path rather than file charges against him in court (if they had the evidence). It was mainly due to the hue and cry and protests by many of you readers in this blog that the matter was abandoned. But now it seems that Muiruri may be in trouble again after writing a letter to all MPs urging them to pass the media bill after saying one or two things about the troubles he has had with his former employers and some police bosses.
All this incidences are related (be patient and I will explain in a minute) and have something to do with mounting lawlessness in the country as we head to the general elections. There is genuine fear that if this is what we are seeing now, then we will need divine intervention to have a country still intact after the polls.
I talked to a police officer today and our conversation went something like this;
Policeman: If there was a place where I would go and return after the elections, I could have quickly gone there.
Kumekucha: Why? What shall we ordinary folks expected to do if you policemen, our protectors, are scared?
Policeman: We policemen are mere mortals like you and we can also be killed. What I will do on elections day (if we get there) is to vote very early in the morning and then I'll lock myself in the house the whole day.
Lawlessness starts from the top and has now trickled down to the common man. This is how it happens.
i) Highest authority in the land ignores court order and goes ahead to grab KICC from its; rightful owners. Available records clearly show that contrary to popular belief, Kanu the political party are the rightful owners of the building, which was built with funds organized for by the late Tom Mboya. This is just one example. On many other occasions the government has ignored court orders and gone ahead and done as they have pleased.
ii) Right on cue a cabinet minister becomes a law unto herself and harasses members of the press for making comments about a curious incident where she was carjacked while with a popular Catholic church priest at an ungodly hour of the night. The same cabinet minister pushes for the prosecution (obviously using her influence) of an alternative press editor who dared to publish a story in similar vein.
iii) A prosperous businessman who is owed some cash by another struggling small business bribes policemen at Kamukunji police station to arrest the person and lock them up without trial well beyond the stipulated 48 hours until their relatives can scramble around doing quick fundraisers to raise the debt which now also includes the hefty bribe given to the OCS. It is not good to owe people money that you can't pay, but this is a civil case and there are procedures to be followed before somebody can be committed to civil jail. They are ignored as the businessman is a law unto himself just as leading daily newspaper was a law unto itself sending policemen to arrest its' former employee, searching his office without a search warrant and with absolutely no evidence—only suspicions and bile potent enough to kill several hundred chickens.
iv) The same prosperous businessman has failed to pay his workers, especially the ones who worked on the unpaid job. But even after getting his money (the guy was a guest of the state at the police cells for about a week before the cash could be raised), he refused to pay his workers one of whom walks every day from Kawangware to the business premises in the Kilimani area to check whether his payment is ready. Ironically what the amount the poor Kenyan is chasing is triple what this businessman spends at a well known up-market watering hole (also in the Kilimani area) on a good Friday night. The worker tries to go to the labor office and several visits later is even forced to bribe the labor officer. The labor guys visit the businessman once and the matter ends there. They keep on giving false promises. It is not clear whether they were bribed or just intimidated by the businessman.
vi) The common man at the bottom of this vicious food chain takes every opportunity to be a law unto themselves because that is the example leaders are leading with. Nobody respects the law so how do we expect the common man to respect it? Why are we surprised when there is so much lawlessness in the country? Why do we even raise an eyebrow when wananchi stone firemen answering an emergency call?
Meanwhile every day we see monotonous, carefully packaged stories in the media that are designed to convince us that the police are winning the war against crime. Always the news clips are the same of gangsters gunned down by police, always with the same looking guns recovered. Right on cue the police commissioner tells us the same thing;
"We have identified the other culprits, we know who they are. My officers are pursuing them. It is only a matter of time…"
That's Kenya for you and a police force that is winning the war against crime amid rising lawlessness and insecurity.
Methinks that this is just window dressing to be used in election campaigns later this year to prove that the government has a handle on the situation. The truth, I assure you, you cannot handle.
The truth is that the battle and the war were lost a long time ago. And it all started at the top.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Muiruri, Police Commissioner And State House: What Is The Link?
archive
Stephen Muiruri is a very secretive person. One quickly gets the impression that this guy is carrying a lot of secrets within him. What do you expect after the guy has served 11 years as a crime reporter and crime editor with a busy daily newspaper?
Pointed questions from me trying to unravel a mystery that I have been trying to pursue for months now has led me nowhere. My conclusion is that the man is greatly feared because of what he knows. My advice to him (because I am sure he will read this) is to come out and reveal the information he has. Spill the beans because you will be much safer that way.
From my investigations so far I can only conclude that this bombshell information has something to do with a top policeman, a well known Nairobi businesswoman and their link to State house and a recently appointed chief executive officer of a leading media house. Somewhere in there lies the story of the century. My instincts are rarely wrong on these matters and I have a feeling it is the sort of story that the players will stop at nothing to keep out of the public domain.
In other words, the guy knows too much. And that is why every time he writes one of those lengthy harmless-looking open letters of his, a number of characters go ballistic.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Stephen Muiruri is a very secretive person. One quickly gets the impression that this guy is carrying a lot of secrets within him. What do you expect after the guy has served 11 years as a crime reporter and crime editor with a busy daily newspaper?
Pointed questions from me trying to unravel a mystery that I have been trying to pursue for months now has led me nowhere. My conclusion is that the man is greatly feared because of what he knows. My advice to him (because I am sure he will read this) is to come out and reveal the information he has. Spill the beans because you will be much safer that way.
From my investigations so far I can only conclude that this bombshell information has something to do with a top policeman, a well known Nairobi businesswoman and their link to State house and a recently appointed chief executive officer of a leading media house. Somewhere in there lies the story of the century. My instincts are rarely wrong on these matters and I have a feeling it is the sort of story that the players will stop at nothing to keep out of the public domain.
In other words, the guy knows too much. And that is why every time he writes one of those lengthy harmless-looking open letters of his, a number of characters go ballistic.
Why Is Hon Michuki bullying his youthful challenger?
The photographs Kumekucha feared to publish.
Horror of Kenyan with female sex organ sharing cell with men at Kamiti Prison
Are you a Kenyan? Do You love your country? Join in this noble campaign to change things. Do something instead of just complaining.
Saturday, June 30, 2007
Stop The Political Violence In Kenya
archive
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
What Is The Stop Political Violence Campaign All About?
The Stop the Political Violence initiative is the brain child of patriotic Kenyans from across the political divide and hailing from every imaginable tribe you can think of in Kenya who have come together at the Kumekucha blog to quit being idlers and to do something about the escalating politically motivated violence in Kenya.
Who said the violence in Kenya is politically motivated?
This is obvious due to various factors. The first question you must ask yourself is why does the violence only start when there is a general election around the corner? The trend has been unbroken since 1991/2 on to 1996/7 and 2001/2 and now 2006/7. Newspapers in Kenya have also clearly documented the origins and growth of the notorious Mungiki which can all be linked to prominent politicians in the country.
What Are The Objectives of the SPV campaign?
Simply to create awareness with the ultimate intention of putting a stop to the political violence in Kenya that mainly affects poor and disadvantaged Kenyans. We have a clear strategy of how to go about this but we also welcome ideas for consideration from other like-minded patriotic Kenyans.
My participation or lack of participation, as one individual will hardly have an impact.
You're wrong. Supposing everybody had the same attitude as you do, what would happen? This initiative would not even have started. In fact Kenya is in a mess today because we have all had this attitude in the past. So we watched as corruption grew until it is now stifling the very life out of our country. You owe it to your children and grandchildren, if not to yourself, to join this noble non-partisan campaign to force positive change in Kenya.
How Can I participate?
It is very easy because there are just two very simple things you need to do.
1) Write as many letters of protest as you can to any media house locally or Internationally that covers news on Kenya. Included in this list are other blogs and websites. Email us a copy of your letters to umissedthis at yahoo dot com (written like this to avoid robots scanning the net for email addresses to use for spamming purposes) and indicate how many letters you have written and delivered. We will regularly keep track of that figure by publishing the top 5 campaigners (and later the top 10, top 20 and top 50) as our numbers grow.
2) Convince as many other people as possible to join in the campaign and keep count of your successful introduction. As soon as the person you have introduced sends off their first letter, email the details to us as well as how many friends you have convinced to join in the campaign so far. We will also keep track of top referrers at the Kumekucha blog. Use the same email address; umissedthis at yahoo dot com (written like this to avoid robots scanning the net for email addresses to use for spamming purposes)
Here is an example of a letter you can send out via email to your friends asking them to join us in this noble venture
Dear
I hope you are well.
This is a short note of appeal to you to join a very noble initiative to campaign against political violence in Kenya, which has been launched at the popular Kumekucha blog. Our conscience will haunt us if we do nothing and condemn our children and grand-children whom we claim to love to a nation in chaos and hurtling toward untold suffering brought about by the selfish political class that is only interested in self preservation and it's own hefty salaries and perks.
All you need to do is to go to the following page now;
http://kumekucha1.blogspot.com/2007/06/stop-political-violence-in-kenya.html
You will find the brief easy-to-read-through-quickly details, including the two simple things you have to do. Our beloved motherland needs you now. Please don't let her down.
Yours,
P.S. - I will really appreciate it if you can forward this email to a friend or two. Pamoja tutashinda na tutabadilisha Kenya.
N.B. Keep on checking this site for new developments and inspiration from others also participating in this campaign.
What if this campaign fails?
I have noted that Kenyans are very industrious and hard working people but many of them are hindered by a crippling fear of failure. This is a big mistake because history teaches us that the winners are those who do not fear failure. Inventor Edison in discovering the light bulb did over 1,800 experiments that were failures before he finally hit the jackpot. The opposition in Kenya failed many times before they finally dislodged Kanu from power. I am confident that we will succeed in this campaign beyond our wildest dreams. Besides doing something is much better than doing nothing.
The people I know do not use the Internet, what do I do?
Letters to media house can even be written by hand and personally delivered or posted at a post office near you. In fact this is the group of people we are most eager to involve in our campaign. So we are not leaving out anybody. Even those who don't know what the Internet is and ordinarily do not read the Kumekucha blog can participate in helping us all get our country back and to halt the rapidly approaching disaster that is on a fatal collision course with our beloved motherland.
What do I say in my protest letter?
Basically say what you feel about ordinary Kenyans losing their lives so that certain personalities can reach their political objectives (see this article about what political violence achieves for politicians in Kenya) but the main points are;
- The saddest thing is that the people who suffer most are the poor. Slum dwellers and the less fortunate members of our society. In other words the voiceless people of Kenya and the majority of voters. This is no accident, as those fanning the violence know exactly what they are doing.
- As long as the violence continues unchecked before even proper campaigns have started, it will be difficult for us to have a free and fair election. Chances are that the same people who have let the country down badly in the 9th parliament will be re-elected.
- Kenya needs women MPs more than ever before, as women tend to be more empathic to the situation on the ground. If things continue as they are, it will be much more difficult for women candidates to campaign successfully for election.
- Violence creates fear and makes voters in the affected areas vulnerable to manipulation.
- The general feeling is that the government is NOT doing enough to end the politically motivated violence. For instance informed sources say that the intelligence community has information on the genesis of the politically motivated violence and those promoting it but are reluctant to arrest the perpetrators who are very prominent Kenyans. Even if this is not true, the government needs to handle this situation with the urgency it deserves.
I don't have the contacts of any media house
Here is the email address and Postal address of the Nation newspaper. We urge everybody to help out by giving out the contacts they have in the comments section below. Let us also include newspapers abroad that sometimes cover news on Kenya.
The Nation editor welcomes letters on topical issues
Postal address; The Editor, Daily Nation P.O. Box 49010, Nairobi 00100
Email: mailbox at nation dot co dot ke (written like this to avoid robots scanning the net for email addresses to use for spamming purposes).
Another reader has added the address of this blog;
Check out this interactive Kenyan website (http://www.kenyaimagine.com). It could be used as one of the platforms you suggested.
Father and son seduced by the same woman called "death."
Discover how the exciting new video web conferencing can make your business or web site much more profitable today.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
What Is The Stop Political Violence Campaign All About?
The Stop the Political Violence initiative is the brain child of patriotic Kenyans from across the political divide and hailing from every imaginable tribe you can think of in Kenya who have come together at the Kumekucha blog to quit being idlers and to do something about the escalating politically motivated violence in Kenya.
Who said the violence in Kenya is politically motivated?
This is obvious due to various factors. The first question you must ask yourself is why does the violence only start when there is a general election around the corner? The trend has been unbroken since 1991/2 on to 1996/7 and 2001/2 and now 2006/7. Newspapers in Kenya have also clearly documented the origins and growth of the notorious Mungiki which can all be linked to prominent politicians in the country.
What Are The Objectives of the SPV campaign?
Simply to create awareness with the ultimate intention of putting a stop to the political violence in Kenya that mainly affects poor and disadvantaged Kenyans. We have a clear strategy of how to go about this but we also welcome ideas for consideration from other like-minded patriotic Kenyans.
My participation or lack of participation, as one individual will hardly have an impact.
You're wrong. Supposing everybody had the same attitude as you do, what would happen? This initiative would not even have started. In fact Kenya is in a mess today because we have all had this attitude in the past. So we watched as corruption grew until it is now stifling the very life out of our country. You owe it to your children and grandchildren, if not to yourself, to join this noble non-partisan campaign to force positive change in Kenya.
How Can I participate?
It is very easy because there are just two very simple things you need to do.
1) Write as many letters of protest as you can to any media house locally or Internationally that covers news on Kenya. Included in this list are other blogs and websites. Email us a copy of your letters to umissedthis at yahoo dot com (written like this to avoid robots scanning the net for email addresses to use for spamming purposes) and indicate how many letters you have written and delivered. We will regularly keep track of that figure by publishing the top 5 campaigners (and later the top 10, top 20 and top 50) as our numbers grow.
2) Convince as many other people as possible to join in the campaign and keep count of your successful introduction. As soon as the person you have introduced sends off their first letter, email the details to us as well as how many friends you have convinced to join in the campaign so far. We will also keep track of top referrers at the Kumekucha blog. Use the same email address; umissedthis at yahoo dot com (written like this to avoid robots scanning the net for email addresses to use for spamming purposes)
Here is an example of a letter you can send out via email to your friends asking them to join us in this noble venture
Dear
I hope you are well.
This is a short note of appeal to you to join a very noble initiative to campaign against political violence in Kenya, which has been launched at the popular Kumekucha blog. Our conscience will haunt us if we do nothing and condemn our children and grand-children whom we claim to love to a nation in chaos and hurtling toward untold suffering brought about by the selfish political class that is only interested in self preservation and it's own hefty salaries and perks.
All you need to do is to go to the following page now;
http://kumekucha1.blogspot.com/2007/06/stop-political-violence-in-kenya.html
You will find the brief easy-to-read-through-quickly details, including the two simple things you have to do. Our beloved motherland needs you now. Please don't let her down.
Yours,
P.S. - I will really appreciate it if you can forward this email to a friend or two. Pamoja tutashinda na tutabadilisha Kenya.
N.B. Keep on checking this site for new developments and inspiration from others also participating in this campaign.
What if this campaign fails?
I have noted that Kenyans are very industrious and hard working people but many of them are hindered by a crippling fear of failure. This is a big mistake because history teaches us that the winners are those who do not fear failure. Inventor Edison in discovering the light bulb did over 1,800 experiments that were failures before he finally hit the jackpot. The opposition in Kenya failed many times before they finally dislodged Kanu from power. I am confident that we will succeed in this campaign beyond our wildest dreams. Besides doing something is much better than doing nothing.
The people I know do not use the Internet, what do I do?
Letters to media house can even be written by hand and personally delivered or posted at a post office near you. In fact this is the group of people we are most eager to involve in our campaign. So we are not leaving out anybody. Even those who don't know what the Internet is and ordinarily do not read the Kumekucha blog can participate in helping us all get our country back and to halt the rapidly approaching disaster that is on a fatal collision course with our beloved motherland.
What do I say in my protest letter?
Basically say what you feel about ordinary Kenyans losing their lives so that certain personalities can reach their political objectives (see this article about what political violence achieves for politicians in Kenya) but the main points are;
- The saddest thing is that the people who suffer most are the poor. Slum dwellers and the less fortunate members of our society. In other words the voiceless people of Kenya and the majority of voters. This is no accident, as those fanning the violence know exactly what they are doing.
- As long as the violence continues unchecked before even proper campaigns have started, it will be difficult for us to have a free and fair election. Chances are that the same people who have let the country down badly in the 9th parliament will be re-elected.
- Kenya needs women MPs more than ever before, as women tend to be more empathic to the situation on the ground. If things continue as they are, it will be much more difficult for women candidates to campaign successfully for election.
- Violence creates fear and makes voters in the affected areas vulnerable to manipulation.
- The general feeling is that the government is NOT doing enough to end the politically motivated violence. For instance informed sources say that the intelligence community has information on the genesis of the politically motivated violence and those promoting it but are reluctant to arrest the perpetrators who are very prominent Kenyans. Even if this is not true, the government needs to handle this situation with the urgency it deserves.
I don't have the contacts of any media house
Here is the email address and Postal address of the Nation newspaper. We urge everybody to help out by giving out the contacts they have in the comments section below. Let us also include newspapers abroad that sometimes cover news on Kenya.
The Nation editor welcomes letters on topical issues
Postal address; The Editor, Daily Nation P.O. Box 49010, Nairobi 00100
Email: mailbox at nation dot co dot ke (written like this to avoid robots scanning the net for email addresses to use for spamming purposes).
Another reader has added the address of this blog;
Check out this interactive Kenyan website (http://www.kenyaimagine.com). It could be used as one of the platforms you suggested.
Father and son seduced by the same woman called "death."
Discover how the exciting new video web conferencing can make your business or web site much more profitable today.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
The allure of gold
message from our sponsors;
Man, it seems can hardly resist the beauty and allure of gold and throughout history has been known to go to great lengths to get it. Whether it is in gold bars or coins.
The truth is that you can hardly go wrong by investing in gold and Monex Precious Metals is the ideal partner to make your dreams in precious metal investments come true.
There is no denying the fact that buying gold has long been recognized for centuries as one of the best ways to preserve one’s wealth and purchasing power. Not to mention protection against the sudden unpredictable ravages of inflation.
Man, it seems can hardly resist the beauty and allure of gold and throughout history has been known to go to great lengths to get it. Whether it is in gold bars or coins.
The truth is that you can hardly go wrong by investing in gold and Monex Precious Metals is the ideal partner to make your dreams in precious metal investments come true.
There is no denying the fact that buying gold has long been recognized for centuries as one of the best ways to preserve one’s wealth and purchasing power. Not to mention protection against the sudden unpredictable ravages of inflation.
Nobody likes to admit that they were wrong
Nobody likes to admit that they were wrong and Kumekucha commentators who once used strong and at times abusive language against the blogger over some analysis or prediction are no exception. They are usually nowhere to be seen when the thing comes to pass. For example this blogger was jeered and ridiculed when he said that retired President Moi would be a major force in the forthcoming elections. This is something that has become very clear now.
Kumekucha predictions
You may have already noticed that most predictions and analysis that Kumekucha gives end up being fairly accurate and many have come to pass. The fascinating thing is that there have been many instances where very angry readers have dismissed certain statements and even threatened to stop visiting the site, only for them to come true.
Monday, June 18, 2007
Online university and the process for change
message from our sponsors;
Jacqueline Binkert, PhD, and Ann Clancy, PhD. Are co authors together with Capella faculty member Sara Orem, in the writing of an explosive new book titled ‘Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Process for Change’
The fact is that recent developments in psychology and organizational development suggest that people and organizations flourish when they focus on human ideals, achievements, and best practices. Appreciative Coaching, which has been published by Jossey-Bass, uses positive questions, mindfulness, and other tools to acknowledge the strengths of individuals and effect change.
Founded in 1993, Capella University is an accredited, fully online university that offers graduate degree programs in business, information technology, education, human services, and psychology, and bachelor’s degree programs in business and information technology. One can even get an adult education degree at this reputable institution.
This blog post was based on information provided by Blogitive. For more information, please visit Blogitive.com
Jacqueline Binkert, PhD, and Ann Clancy, PhD. Are co authors together with Capella faculty member Sara Orem, in the writing of an explosive new book titled ‘Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Process for Change’
The fact is that recent developments in psychology and organizational development suggest that people and organizations flourish when they focus on human ideals, achievements, and best practices. Appreciative Coaching, which has been published by Jossey-Bass, uses positive questions, mindfulness, and other tools to acknowledge the strengths of individuals and effect change.
Founded in 1993, Capella University is an accredited, fully online university that offers graduate degree programs in business, information technology, education, human services, and psychology, and bachelor’s degree programs in business and information technology. One can even get an adult education degree at this reputable institution.
This blog post was based on information provided by Blogitive. For more information, please visit Blogitive.com
High Kumekucha traffic
It is clear that Kumekucha has on of the highest levels of traffic for any Kenyan blog. How has the site achieved this? Mainly by courageous writing without fear or favor and generally publishing information on Kenya and Kenyans that would be very difficult or impossible to find anywhere else. I thank all you readers who have made all this possible.
Kumekucha clocks 1,000 posts
The main Kumekucha site yesterday celebrated yet another milestone. The site reached a total of 1,000 posts or pages. Of course there are sites that have managed to clock more than that in terms of pages. Still the kumekucha blog can boast of 1,000 quality pages that combined draw a considerable daily traffic to the site.
Friday, May 25, 2007
Menstruation Odor Causes Marriage To Elude Woman
Dear Kumekucha,
Thank you for your wonderful site. Some of us have become very educated in politics and many other issues through Kumekucha.
I have a friend who after a very difficult time has recently got into another brand new relationship, but sadly, she is sure it will end in the same way that the previous ones have. I am trying very hard to encourage her and to tell her that life always has pleasant surprises, but she is very negative about the whole thing.
Her problem is a little embarrassing. What happens is that during her periods the odor is excessive and she believes this problem will make it impossible for her to ever live with a man under the same roof. She believes and I have little reason to doubt, that this is what has caused her serious relationships of the past to end when they should have developed further. Few people can actually stand the strong odor that is with her during the three to five days in a month when she has her periods. And of course we all know that men can hardly stand the site of blood.
Kumekucha Says,
The first thing I would like to say to your friend is that nobody is perfect. After 20 years in a very happy marriage, and listening to my wife share with me problems other women are going through, I can tell you that couples have all sorts of problems that they will never speak about in public.
But real love is not getting a "perfect" person. Love is accepting each other as you are. I am very confident that even in her present state there is somebody out there who will love her and accept her as she too loves and accepts them with their weaknesses.
Having said that, you have not mentioned whether she has seen a doctor, because this is important to rule out a bacterial infection, which my research tells me, can in some cases cause excessive menstruation odor.
A specialist doctor friend also tells me that most women are just too sensitive to their own normal body odors thinking that everybody can smell it when this is not the case. Admittedly in ordinary circumstances, odor during menstruation can be caused when air reaches the menstrual fluid. This is however easy to deal with by changing tampons more frequently and if the flow is heavy using tampons that are best suited to deal with heavy flow. However your friend's case does not appear to be as simple as this.
I don’t know why I have this feeling that her problem may be more in her mind than anywhere else and she may need to see a counselor or psychiatrist. I do not know if you are aware that many married couples still have sex during menstruation (not advisable) and we even have menstruation porn on the net, which appears to be fairly popular (that's how sick our world is).
See also;
Woman Reveals Nasty Men Habits Nobody Talks About
Woman Murders Her Best Friend To Steal Her Husband As Science Proves That It Is Deadly For Women To Have Casual Sex
Rape virtually every day
Woman has never had sex because every time she tries…
Errant Buru Buru Husband Taught a Lesson By Cheeky Wife
A True Kenyan Story: Matatu Nightmare
Couples Reunion At The Airport After 6 Long Years, Turns Ugly
Father and two sons seduced by a woman called "death."
A True Kenyan Story: A Doctor’s Revenge
Angry real Gikuyu man answers long suffering Kenyan beauty
Thank you for your wonderful site. Some of us have become very educated in politics and many other issues through Kumekucha.
I have a friend who after a very difficult time has recently got into another brand new relationship, but sadly, she is sure it will end in the same way that the previous ones have. I am trying very hard to encourage her and to tell her that life always has pleasant surprises, but she is very negative about the whole thing.
Her problem is a little embarrassing. What happens is that during her periods the odor is excessive and she believes this problem will make it impossible for her to ever live with a man under the same roof. She believes and I have little reason to doubt, that this is what has caused her serious relationships of the past to end when they should have developed further. Few people can actually stand the strong odor that is with her during the three to five days in a month when she has her periods. And of course we all know that men can hardly stand the site of blood.
Kumekucha Says,
The first thing I would like to say to your friend is that nobody is perfect. After 20 years in a very happy marriage, and listening to my wife share with me problems other women are going through, I can tell you that couples have all sorts of problems that they will never speak about in public.
But real love is not getting a "perfect" person. Love is accepting each other as you are. I am very confident that even in her present state there is somebody out there who will love her and accept her as she too loves and accepts them with their weaknesses.
Having said that, you have not mentioned whether she has seen a doctor, because this is important to rule out a bacterial infection, which my research tells me, can in some cases cause excessive menstruation odor.
A specialist doctor friend also tells me that most women are just too sensitive to their own normal body odors thinking that everybody can smell it when this is not the case. Admittedly in ordinary circumstances, odor during menstruation can be caused when air reaches the menstrual fluid. This is however easy to deal with by changing tampons more frequently and if the flow is heavy using tampons that are best suited to deal with heavy flow. However your friend's case does not appear to be as simple as this.
I don’t know why I have this feeling that her problem may be more in her mind than anywhere else and she may need to see a counselor or psychiatrist. I do not know if you are aware that many married couples still have sex during menstruation (not advisable) and we even have menstruation porn on the net, which appears to be fairly popular (that's how sick our world is).
See also;
Woman Reveals Nasty Men Habits Nobody Talks About
Woman Murders Her Best Friend To Steal Her Husband As Science Proves That It Is Deadly For Women To Have Casual Sex
Rape virtually every day
Woman has never had sex because every time she tries…
Errant Buru Buru Husband Taught a Lesson By Cheeky Wife
A True Kenyan Story: Matatu Nightmare
Couples Reunion At The Airport After 6 Long Years, Turns Ugly
Father and two sons seduced by a woman called "death."
A True Kenyan Story: A Doctor’s Revenge
Angry real Gikuyu man answers long suffering Kenyan beauty
Thursday, May 24, 2007
How to fight inflation
message from our sponsors;
There is little doubt that purchasing gold has long been recognized as one of the best ways to preserve one’s wealth and purchasing power and is in fact a solid cushion against ravaging inflation.
Gold bullion really is a unique investment and from ancient times man has had an affinity for gold bullion and an insatiable appetite for it too. In all ages, man has been fascinated with the beauty and magic of gold, and with its power to change men’s lives. Today, the beauty of a gold bar lies in its proven ability to diversify investments, protect wealth and preserve one’s purchasing power. And the people to aid you in gold investments are none other than the Monex companies which has been America’s gold and precious metals investment leader for a very long time.
There is little doubt that purchasing gold has long been recognized as one of the best ways to preserve one’s wealth and purchasing power and is in fact a solid cushion against ravaging inflation.
Gold bullion really is a unique investment and from ancient times man has had an affinity for gold bullion and an insatiable appetite for it too. In all ages, man has been fascinated with the beauty and magic of gold, and with its power to change men’s lives. Today, the beauty of a gold bar lies in its proven ability to diversify investments, protect wealth and preserve one’s purchasing power. And the people to aid you in gold investments are none other than the Monex companies which has been America’s gold and precious metals investment leader for a very long time.
Keeping Kumekucha fresh
Admittedly keeping Kumekucha fresh, original and packed constantly packed with new ideas, is quite a challenge. But the blogger behind Kumekucha seems to be up to it. Several failed experiments at getting others to help out with the writing, has clearly demonstrated that there is only one Kumekucha, impossible to copy, difficult to imitate.
Reputation for exposing scandals
Over the years Kumekucha has built a reputation for himself for exposing scandals and discussing issues that few others would dare discuss. This has had the effect of attracting a huge army of regular readers most of whom just have to get their daily fix of Kumekucha before they can face their day.
Hotel search made easy in Orlando
message from our sponsors;
A useful site for any tourist planning on going to Orlando Florida for a holiday of a lifetime is Orlando.com. The site offers the most comprehensive travel and vacation arrangements in Orlando, with a travel guide offering tips on entertainment, dining, nightlife and so on.
This hot tourist spot is best known as the home of the world famous Walt Disney World. But there is much more to Orlando Florida and it also boasts of high-end shopping areas, luxury resort hotels, cultural venues and other family-oriented activities. Like any other popular tourist destination in the world, finding the hotel in orlando that best suits you may not be as easy without the help of this amazing web site.
A useful site for any tourist planning on going to Orlando Florida for a holiday of a lifetime is Orlando.com. The site offers the most comprehensive travel and vacation arrangements in Orlando, with a travel guide offering tips on entertainment, dining, nightlife and so on.
This hot tourist spot is best known as the home of the world famous Walt Disney World. But there is much more to Orlando Florida and it also boasts of high-end shopping areas, luxury resort hotels, cultural venues and other family-oriented activities. Like any other popular tourist destination in the world, finding the hotel in orlando that best suits you may not be as easy without the help of this amazing web site.
Tragic cheating spouses
But even more tragic—concerning unfaithful couples are the children accidentally brought into this world. More so when the partner who has been cheated on discovers the child was conceived out of wed-lock. What happens is that the poor child lives a life of rejection and fear and is more often than not doomed to a life of failure and frustrations.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)